Word: cracked
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...other features of the team's play also showed a marked improvement. When Cornell tried to crack the Crimson's shifting 2-3 zone defense by forcing it to overshift with quick passes, Harvard harried them into bad shots and then blocked out to grab the rebounds that formerly were converted into easy baskets...
...white students had once defied a howling segregationist mob, only seven whites were left in school with a solitary six-year-old Negro youngster. At McDonogh 19 the white boycott was complete; the only students were three little Negro first-graders. Then one day the boycott seemed to crack. Gregory Thompson, 10, reported to McDonogh 19. A couple of days later, Greg's brother Michael, 8, walked to school with...
...four destroyers, twelve frigates and three submarines scattered among Portugal's far-flung possessions. Galvão announced that he was headed for Angola, the Portuguese African colony where he was once inspector general. But when trouble erupted in neighboring Congo last year, Lisbon rushed several battalions of crack troops to Angola, which would be more than a match for Galvão's 70 rebels and whatever sympathizers he may have in the colony. Brazilian observers speculated that Galvão was simply cruising about in the Atlantic until newly elected President Jânio da Silva...
Last week Tokle once again tackled Bear Mountain, where he figures the maximum safe jump is 160 ft. Going all out against two crack Finnish entries, he soared an estimated 162 ft., then swerved sharply and tore a ligament in his right ankle. But even with the patriarch of U.S. ski jumping sidelined for a few weeks, the Tokles are still in the business. Arthur Jr., II, has been jumping since he flew 20 ft. at the age of two, is now competing in junior meets. Says Arthur Sr.: "All he needs is practice...
...Deluxe Colored screen version of the play, written and produced by Playwright Stevens, lacks two of the Broadway principals and most of the bawdier jokes. Instead of Boyer and Colbert, the picture offers James Mason, an actor who could not crack a joke if it was a lichee nut, and Susan Hayward, a bargain-basement Bette Davis whose lightest touch as comedienne would stun a horse...