Word: cracked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...when the smoke cleared above the blasted elephant grass, Hanoi hardly had reason to gloat. Some 350 of their crack troops, many of whom had come over the border into South Viet Nam within the last month, lay dead in la Drang valley, bringing to well over 1,000 their losses in the week's Armageddon with the 1st Air Cavalry...
Well, I do know, of course, and so does everybody else. Clay (or Muhammed Ali, if you wish) is on the threshhold of becoming the greatest heavyweight in the history of the ring. Floyd Patterson, Clay's opponent in Las Vegas tonight, will open the door just another crack. That's all; nothing more, nothing less...
...Rusk reiterated last week that the U.S. is simply "getting on with our commitment here-keeping open the possibilities of peace if the other side decides to pursue that tack." In fact, though, it is increasingly evident that Hanoi is as deeply committed to victory as the U.S. Five crack divisions of North Viet Nam's regular army have already been thrown into the struggle, more troops infiltrate every week. Thus the widening war in Viet Nam is by no means one-sided-as every American involved in it can testify...
Hints of Espionage. As a youngster, Dorothy wanted to grow up to be like Daddy-crack I.N.S. Reporter James Kilgallen. The summer after her freshman year at the College of New Rochelle, she went to work at the New York Evening Journal and liked it so much she never went back to the class room. Enjoying a well-known byline by the time she was 23, she joined a race with two other New York reporters to see who could get around the world fastest by commercial airline. By clock and calendar, Dorothy came in second; in the contest...
...Harvard scored its first touchdown in a month after its best sustained drive of the season. The longest gain on the march was an 11-yard run by Leo, but Harvard's backs were virtually unstoppable. Leo, Grant, and Choquette repeatedly hammered out six or seven yards at a crack through big holes in the Tiger line...