Word: cracks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...China's Foreign Minister Chen Yi, en route to Moscow from Geneva, where he spent more time making contacts among European Communists than worrying about Laos, was sufficiently impressed by the paper to be annoyed about it. "You will not find a crack in the Sino-Soviet alliance any more than you will find one in a duck's egg," he told a French reporter. But he could not resist adding: "The heaviest Soviet satellite weighs four tons. China is too heavy to become a satellite.'' A Polish Communist source insisted that the Deutscher paper...
...only offering an Arab pleasantry when he announced his intent to "liberate" oil-rich Kuwait. He was amazed when alarm bells went off all over the Middle East. At Sheik Abdullah as Salim as Sabah's cry for help, Britain in a matter of hours poured 3,000 crack troops, with their tanks and troop carriers, into Kuwait from bases in Kenya, Aden and Bahrein. A British aircraft carrier and a fleet of warships appeared offshore; another flotilla steamed toward the area from the Mediterranean. After the fiasco at Suez, the British were delighted at the chance to demonstrate...
...steep grade, the small talk of tiny birds in the bushes, and the murmuring of a mountain stream. And at night: the goose-pimpling patter of rain on the canvas that wakes a child, the stark clarity of detail in the tent when lightning flashes, and the crack of thunder and its rolling echo around the lake shore...
...strictly personal approach," recalled one alumna, "as if she were a governess and we were her little children." Added Actress Julie Harris, a member of the Grosse Pointe, Mich, smart set. who lived with Miss Hewitt for more than a year after graduation while she tried to crack Broadway: "Something has gone out of my life...
...Anderson, 53, writes what he calls "concert music with a pop quality"-compositions that rely heavily on acoustical effects and rarely run longer than three minutes. Most popular Anderson concert piece last season was Sleigh Ride, a jog-trotting exercise complete with sleigh bells (jingled by a percussionist) the crack of a whip (two hinged pieces of wood slapped together) and the sound of a whinnying horse (a trumpet with valves half closed...