Word: cracks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hanke: "It was the only weapon I couldn't figure out a way to fight." On the strength of Detroit's success with the instrument, Michigan state police and 45 other municipal and county police organizations are now testing the nutcracker, which, some have found, can also crack nuts...
...friends and supporters of the accused had come, laden with bouquets of red tu lips and yellow daffodils. Forbidden to attend the closed trial, they huddled in the freezing cold, waiting for a chance to express their sympathy with the lat est victim of the government's crack down on dissenters. This time the pris oner was a pretty 30-year-old blonde, Irina Belogorodskaya, whose crime consisted of having left her handbag, containing copies of a protest against the ar rest of a political dissident, in a taxi. The charge: "Preparing and distributing false fabrication defaming the Soviet...
...Stade will, however, crack down on those girls who are being smuggled free meals. He said that because of three or four instances of food smuggling, he is going to write a letter to the porters and dining hall checkers, instructing them to be careful that no girls get Union food without paying...
...almost free of the Great Trauma. In many countries, people refuse to wake each other, thinking that a man's soul wanders at night and may not have time to get back if sleep ends prematurely. But for industrial societies, the schedules are merciless. Rising at the crack, grumped German Journalist Johannes Gross recently, condemns modern man to the life of peasants. Mutters Pablo Picasso, "I understand why they execute condemned men at dawn. I just have to see the dawn in order to have my head roll all by itself." Hungarian Author Ferenc Molnar was so unaccustomed...
...invasion of Austria, the Nürnberg war-crime trials, 18 national political conventions-and he could also be seen scrambling through smoke-choked buildings on fire stories. Indeed, as the Constitution's editor, and particularly as its publisher since 1960, McGill proved too kindly to crack the editorial whip that the slipping newspaper needed. It is a measure of the man that the paper enjoyed a reputation far exceeding its merit only because Ralph McGill was there...