Word: cracked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tumor virus, is exceedingly low, though not zero. Second, evolutionary considerations provide an independent approach to the question. It seems exceedingly doubtful that our novel ability to introduce mammalian DNA into bacteria in the laboratory will create a truly novel class of organisms, for evolution has already had a crack at the problem...
Winding through narrow jungle roads, a platoon of Thailand's crack 1st Cavalry Battalion was caught last month in the bloodiest ambush yet staged by the country's Communist insurgents. Twenty-two of the unit's 26 men were quickly cut down in a fusillade of rocket grenades and heavy machine-gun fire. Seizing the platoon's weapons and ammunition, the Communists set the dead bodies afire with gasoline, then slipped back into their jungle cover...
...himself, Rees purchased a $16,000 plot of land, and he met a bookie who would let him play the ponies at $2,000 a crack. But, he claimed, he "found out that it was a scam [a con game] and had the guy beat up. They broke one side of his rib cage. He had taken me for a bunch...
...device of under-invoicing exports and over-invoicing imports; the excess amounts were then deposited in bank accounts abroad. But when it seemed that the Communists might make major gains in last June's elections, Switzerland was awash in a flood of lire. In an attempt to crack down on foreign accounts, Guardia officials were reportedly posted outside Swiss banks to take down the license numbers of Italian motorists making deposits...
...abortive Allied attempt to cross the Rhine in 1944 by parachuting 35,000 men behind the lines into Holland, the movie employed an army all by itself. Besides the stars, Director Richard Attenborough recruited 100 young actors in London and trained them to behave and, supposedly, even think, like crack British troops. For the dramatic scenes of the airborne assault, hundreds of paratroopers from a Belgian unit and from Britain's 16th Paratroop Brigade jumped out of antique DC-3 Dakotas...