Word: cracking
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Crack" in "Wisecrack...
...essential characteristic of satire, according to Johnson, is criticism. He explained that "the 'crack' in 'wisecrack' is the crack of the whip, which is never more effective than when it is cutting into someone's hide...
...spirited quips. Only the host, Francis Cardinal Spellman, he said, could have brought together at the same banquet table two political leaders "who have long eyed each other suspiciously and who have disagreed so strongly, both publicly and privately-Vice President Nixon and Governor Rockefeller." He went on to crack to this knowledgeable audience that Casey Stengel's firing was proof that "perhaps experience doesn't count...
Except in reaction to some sharp crack, Nixon rarely looked at Kennedy while Kennedy was talking, although Kennedy kept a shrewd eye cocked on Nixon most of the time that the Vice President had the mike. In the realm of foreign policy they produced the real blazing sparks that could well ignite the campaign and keep it burning straight through into November. Items...
...quietly investigating their purchasing and marketing practices. One Chicago businessman has private detectives make periodic checks on some 200 executives: "If I hear of one driving a Cadillac and I know his salary won't permit it, I have him checked." But if an executive is doing a crack job, there are complications. "I've got a couple of department heads I'm suspicious of now, but their departmental results are so good I keep my mouth shut...