Word: cracks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...motorists whose reaction time is somewhat slowed by a small seepage of carbon monoxide into a closed auto. If the exhaust and manifold are in good shape and fitted tight, the auto is probably safe. But it's even safer to leave a rear window open a crack...
...late, before you are chucked out." What seemed to aggravate Khrushchev far more was the recent CIA report that Russia itself was in the throes of a grave economic crisis. In reply to that, he angrily shouted a new version of his famed "We'll bury you" crack: "You will vanish as though the earth had swallowed you before you see our economy failing...
...morning before Christmas, Nicosia woke to the chattering of machine guns and the crack of rifles. The Greek Cypriot police were fighting it out with Turkish Cypriot civilians. In the northern section of Nicosia, 10,000 Turkish Cypriots were without water and rapidly running out of food. In his official home in one of the bastions of the city's old Venetian wall, Dr. Kuchuk held hazardous cease-fire meetings while bullets poured into his house from two sides...
...misses. But ah, the details. The court is about 200 ft. long; the ball is so hard (rubber core wound with nylon string, covered with goatskin) and goes so fast (up to 175 m.p.h.) that the front wall has to made of 12-in.-thick granite block-concrete would crack from the impact. The ricocheting angles are infinite, requiring incredible feats of agility, timing and strength. And there are times when just staying alive amid the buzzing missiles can be a victory...
...Short, Happy Life. The players in Florida are mostly Basques, and they are groomed and guarded as carefully as any race horse. They start training at eight or nine, arrive in the U.S. at 16, spend two years playing in minor-league Florida frontons before getting a crack at Miami's big time. They are forbidden to drink anything stronger than wine, are locked into their quarters before every night's matches -so that they cannot be approached by gamblers. But there are compensations: top players get $20,000 a season, and late Saturday night, when the week...