Word: cracks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Chinese intellectuals. You can't go to China and get something without anything to give. You can't go and say 'gimme, gimme.' If you have something to give, that's OK, that's polite." It wasn't always in the line of duty. When the Nationalists began to crack down on a number of their intellectuals critics in Kunming, Fairbank headed south to help the scholars...
...when a reporter innocently asked if he would be getting married, Caine blanched. "She's my girl friend," he sniffed. "Any talk of marriage is way out." Being one of Mississippi's better-known citizens, Byron De La Beckwith, 46, is thinking of taking a crack at state politics. After all, a lot of folks remember "Delay" right well from his two trials for the murder of Negro Civil Rights Leader Medgar Evers in 1962. Both times his peers failed to reach a verdict. Now the gun collector from Greenwood has been scattering publicity shots around the state...
...Park. The prerace favorite (at 3-5) was Ogden Phipps's four-year-old Buckpasser, Horse of the Year in 1966, winner of eleven straight stakes, and fourth biggest money winner ($1,271,224) in thoroughbred history. Buckpasser was scratched when he was found to have a quarter crack in one hoof similar to a split toenail in a human. The same kind of injury kept Buckpasser out of last year's Kentucky Derby; this time, he is expected to be out of action for at least two months...
...many observers thought Lin had settled years ago. In the late 1950's, many professional officers, including the Defense Minister at that time, P'eng Tehhuai, complained that the PLA was asked to spend too much time bringing in harvests and building dams. The officers wanted to build a crack modern army and felt too little time was left for military training. China, they thought, should swallow its pride and a little ideology and accept Russian help in building modern weapons stockpiles, including atomic bombs...
...main façade of Manhattan's New York Hilton was so badly discolored that it had to be replaced last year, only 31 years after the hotel was completed. Ozone, a principal component of photochemical smog, discolors and disintegrates clothing and causes rubber to become brittle and crack...