Word: crackly
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...Suddenly, the heftiest of the mendicants bellows in a throaty bass: "In the name of God, know that thou hast erred by desecrating this pure land, by acting more ferociously than a hungry tiger in devouring the lives of living beings. Curse be on thee, polluting industrialist! May God crack thine head to seven pieces and banish thee once and for all to inferno...
...Cracking Down. The Oct. 5 abduction of Cross-the first political kidnaping to occur north of the Rio Grande-set in motion a series of events that shocked the world. Acting with unflinching determination, Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau rejected the terrorists' initial extravagant demands for Cross' release: $500,000 in gold bullion, plus transport and safe conduct for 23 jailed F.L.Q. thugs to Cuba or Algeria. After the ransom was denied, another group of kidnapers then abducted Quebec Labor Minister Pierre Laporte, prompting Trudeau to crack down really hard. Under a little-used World War I security measure...
...campaign to crush the nettlesome E.T.A. The outfit, which has only 200 active adherents, has been a persistent irritant, punctuating its fuzzy demands for a Marxist Basque state with demonstrations, bombings and bank holdups. It was the 1968 San Sebastian murder that convinced the Caudillo it was time to crack down...
...give adults a lifetime crack at formal learning, the commission wants the Federal Government to guarantee two years of college for everyone-and to put it "in the bank" for withdrawal at any age. In addition to more two-year community colleges, which this obviously requires, the commission urges a big expansion in off-campus education -correspondence courses, TV lectures, home teaching cassettes. Eventually, some youngsters and adults (including housewives, the aged and the poor) could earn "external" degrees without attending college at all. Moreover, a new system of equivalency exams would give credit for skills acquired through reading...
...Change of Mind. Flores, assigned to the crack 101st Airborne Division last month, lost no time in applying for C.O. status. His superiors shifted Flores out of combat and eventually to the 101st's Camp Eagle headquarters, pending Washington's action on his application. Before long more than a dozen other G.I.s from Flores' battalion and other units arrived at Camp Eagle, all demanding C.O. treatment...