Word: cracks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...flexing interview given by Admiral Arleigh Burke had been given before inauguration day, and thus predated the Kennedy directive requiring such comments to be cleared by the White House. "This," said Kennedy, "makes me happier than ever that such a directive has gone out." To some Washington hands, the crack grated as a needless rasp for the Navy's capable chief, who was a distinguished combat commander when Jack Kennedy was learning to run PT boats...
...months before investigators - helped by U.S. experts -could piece together the causes of the disaster, but the facts could scarcely lighten the burden of the tragedy itself. It was proud Sabena's worst disaster, and the first crash involving a regularly scheduled commercial Boeing 707 (two other 707 crack-ups occurred during training flights). No one life could claim a value above another, but the deaths of brothers and sisters, husbands and wives, fathers and sons dealt one of the worst blows to whole families of any crash ever. In all, there were multiple deaths in ten skating families...
...clock and favored by the rules on fouls, the N.B.A. players are happily turning into "gunners"-once a term of contempt for the men who did nothing but shoot. "The kids are making shots we wouldn't even dare take," says Detroit's Coach McGuire, a crack playmaker during his career. "The science is going out of the game and it's becoming dull. Who wants to watch Wilt stuff them in? We need playmaking badly." Cousy notes wistfully: "The shooting has reached such a status that the playmaker is now unnecessary...
Insight & Farce. Bright but not brassy, Gregory's material ranges everywhere, from the possible ejects of President Kennedy's religion ("Four years of bingo") to the Israeli Abomb: "They want to find out if there's anything that will crack open a stale bagel." But the condition of the colored man is his main theme and night after night he plays it with grace...
...Louis, Dick Gregory was raised on relief. His chronically unemployed father was separated from his mother, a woman full of humor who always told her son that the family was "not poor, just broke," and taught him the spirited difference. Well-built and athletic, he was a crack miler at Sumner High School, went on to break records at Southern Illinois University. He showed skill as a comic in Army talent contests in the mid '50s, and when he worked as a clerk in the Chicago post office, the foreman told him that if he did not stop cracking...