Word: cracks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cream-colored walls of Dom Priemov were the boots of a Soviet soldier, which protruded beneath the spiked iron gates when he opened a peephole to scrutinize an arriving automobile. For the first time, Russians were willing to talk and even to joke about the Sino-Soviet conflict. One crack making the rounds in Moscow suggested that the way to solve the whole thing was for Mao Tse-tung and Charles de Gaulle to conclude an alliance, thus letting the two troublemakers take care of each other...
Thus Mao was beholden to no one, least of all Stalin, for his victory. Yet ironically, the first open ideological crack in the Moscow-Peking partnership came over Khrushchev's 1956 denunciation of Stalin...
...sheltered schools. Alexander's parting hope: that "we continue to be a force for constructive change in American higher education." The University of Wyoming is losing lean, granitic Samuel Howell Knight, 70, creator of the so-so school's one real claim to academic fame-a crack geology department that lures graduate students from Yale, Stanford and other distant schools. Geologist Knight spent his youth studying the badlands the way a city kid takes in the movies. He might have made a fortune in mining, chose instead to teach on a salary that for 30 years...
...Gulf of Saros o Gallipoli in 1915, dragging a raft of lares in a diversionary tactic against the Turks, in World War II led Imperial troops in Libya, bloody Crete and Italy, where he once squelched a U.S. genral's complaint that New Zealanders never saluted with the crack, "Try waving at them and they'll wave back," returned home to serve as New Zealand's hugely popular Governor General from 1946 to 1952; following an internal hemorrhage; in Windsor, England...
...days before his last spy mission. Ivan's dreams of his happy childhood so recently past come back to torture him when he sleeps. And always the dreams end in a moment of nightmare. For the most part, the reality of war is felt only in the occasional crack of a sniper's rifle or the firefly descent of flares, but its effect on Ivan and his comrades shows in their gropings for reassurance from one another. Even Masha, a girl medical officer with eyes like a grey squirrel's, helps in her inarticulate...