Word: cracked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Pentagon has stepped up its shopping for almost every conceivable commodity from beans to bazookas, reopened defense plants that have lain idle for a decade, rushed in scarce equipment from units all over the world. With 45% of its strength deployed overseas.† the Army is prepared at the crack of a shot for another Dominican Republic, another Lebanon-even another Viet...
...Saigon and the U.S. decided to build up the national police so that they could carry out a classic role in counterinsurgency as developed by the British in Malaya: Resource Control. In plain terms, their function is to deny guerrillas food, medicine and supplies. Pham Van Lieu, a crack former marine commando, was brought in to restore discipline and esprit and to try to mend fences with the regular military. The number of canh sat was doubled from 22,000 to the present 53,000, will total 72,000 by 1967-many of them trained by 144 U.S. policemen imported...
Three years ago, in the months that followed the military overthrow of President Arturo Frondizi, the country ricocheted from crisis to crisis as rival army factions fought bitterly for control. Ongania, then commander of the army's crack motorized cavalry corps, emerged as the muscle behind a group of enlightened officers determined to reestablish constitutional government. He sent tanks rumbling into the city and, after a series of sharp, bloody clashes, routed the army's Colorado faction, which stood for old-style, jack-booted dictatorship. Illia's peaceful election ten months later consolidated Ongania's triumph...
...youngest of seven children, Deller was born in the seaside town of Margate, England. His father taught boxing and fencing at private schools, and under his coaching, young Deller became a crack soccer and cricket player for the Kent County team. He began singing with the church choir at ten, but when his voice failed to change significantly after six years, the choirmaster advised him to quit lest he permanently injure his vocal cords. He had a brief fling with the local opera company but left because the director made him rehearse with the ladies' chorus. He took...
...includes his energetic wife Mary as administrator, carefully address each of the 86 patients by name, even those who are close to senility. Such continuous and careful respect for the individual is an important part of the Whitaker therapy. "Our aim," says the husky, gentle doctor, who was a crack Marine transport pilot in World War II, "is to rehabilitate each one to his greatest capacity...