Word: cracked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Flat Denial. In Paris, the crack about Napoleon brought cries of British perfidy; in Bonn, banner headlines screamed...
...Dwight Eisenhower, came a message of congratulation; from assembled speakers came paeans of praise. But as the tributes converged on his rumpled head, Maurice Ewing, 53, most likely was thinking about a ridge in the floor of the Pacific which, according to one of his theories, should have a crack running along its peak...
...Francisco Giants, needing another starting pitcher, traded for Baltimore's Billy O'Dell, 27, who had a fine E.R.A. of 2.94 last year and a 10-12 record. Needing a second baseman, they got one of the best and a crack lead-off man to boot: St. Louis' Don Blasingame (.289) who should score freely, batting ahead of Willie Mays (.313), Willie McCovey (.354) and Orlando Cepeda (.317)¶ The Milwaukee Braves have New Manager Chuck Dressen, a nonstop talker and one of baseball's finest tacticians, to shake new life into aging but still skilled...
...boys last week as the 6$-car field roared away in the tenth annual twelve-hour endurance race over the runways of an old bomber base outside of Scoring, Fla. Strong favorites were the flashy Ferraris, and the new, deep-throated Maserati that was driven in relays by the crack team of California's Dan Gurney and Britain's redoubtable Stirling Moss...
Prepared. In Bangor, Me., after police nabbed a 14-year-old boy trying to crack the safe of St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church, he explained that he had found his way through the darkened building by lighting an application card for a Boy Scout merit badge...