Word: cracked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Thunderation!" he muttered indignantly, as the Illinois Central's crack Panama Limited slowed for a laggard signal. From his starched collar to his shiny black shoes, the stocky, craggy-faced passenger was obviously a farmer returning from the city, impatient to see how many inches the corn had grown in his absence, begrudging every precious second of daylight lost in transit. Finally, 172 miles and 155 minutes out of Chicago, the train glided to a halt at Mattoon, III., and the fretful passenger hopped...
...generation of Americans tasted major combat last week and passed the test. At daybreak one morning, three battalions of the 3rd Marine Division attacked some 2,000 crack Viet Cong troops holed up on a small neck of land just south of the Marine airbase at Chu Lai. By week's end the U.S. had fought its first large-scale battle since Korea and had won decisively. Smashed with the Viet Cong was the myth that the Red foe is invincible in the tangled underbrush of his home land; smashed also was the myth that...
...know what to do, don't do anything." Then, if the problem does not correct itself, there is almost always time enough to take remedial action−as there was last week when the gremlins of Gemini 5 battled against the determined ingenuity, intelligence and hardheaded courage of crack U.S. spacemen...
...often producing a cosmetic that a drug firm finds hard to market or a drug that a cosmetics manufacturer is at a loss to understand. Revlon hopes that combined research will turn up products that can be readily retailed in drugstores, which are thoroughly covered by Revlon's crack 168-man sales force...
...mariners puzzled over a molten glow in the eastern sky. Over the roar of the freeway, motorists heard the unmistakable crack of rifle fire, the chilling stutter of machine guns. Above city hall, billowing smoke from 1,000 fires hung like a cerement. From the air, whole sections of the sprawling city looked as if they had been blitzed...