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The second governor sent from Spain, Lieutenant General Don Alejandro O’Reilly, cracked down on the rebels.
How their dream cracked up, resulting in the pablum of today's PBS, and how PBS became Washington's most politically skittish organization, is the subject of James Ledbetter's brief history, Made Possible By ...
Belgrade, no longer restrained by Tito's aversion to exacerbating ethnic conflict, cracked down.
By 1968, that annus horribilis when Johnson cracked from the pressure of mediating an increasingly centripetal Democratic Party and Kennedy fell to an assassin's bullet, two political ideal-types had solidified: a "silent majority" who supported Johnson's war on Vietnam and voted in Richard Nixon, and a "new class" of liberal professionals and youth who supported Johnson's war on poverty but detested everything Richard Nixon represented.
Senate Republicans last month killed a reform bill that would have cracked down on PACs, "soft money," and other current arrangements some people don't care for.