Word: cracked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Communists have already indicated that they will seek legislation to crack down on tax evaders. They also want better pay for police, more schools and hospitals and a cutback on the sottogoverno, the maze of inefficient governmental agencies. Andreotti can accept most of the Communist proposals, although Zaccagnini warned Christian Democratic leaders last week "to avoid the danger that the parliamentary vote will constitute in fact that majority which we excluded on a political plane." Bluntly, that meant they had to watch against the Communists grabbing command of the lawmaking process and slipping into the government via the parliamentary back...
...primaries has given him a popular legitimacy transcending factions. Another hero is Chairman Strauss, the shrewd and decent Texas lawyer with a gift for keeping horses of different gaits in harness. Three and a half years ago, Strauss took over a party that, in Mr. Dooley's crack, was not on speaking terms with itself. The party's liberal wing distrusted Strauss as a Texan who walked a line to the right of center. But he has proved to be one of the most effective chairmen in memory-an excellent fund raiser and conciliatory referee...
...Group 6 in the hunt for the Japanese fleet, found it and opened the aerial assault that gave the outnumbered Americans victory. Bleeding from five wounds, his SBD dive bomber hit 55 times, McClusky landed back on the Enterprise with five gallons of gas left and reported three crack Japanese carriers (Akagi, Kaga and Soryu) bombed, ablaze and wrecked...
Since they cannot crack Broadway, Harry and Walter decide the next best thing would be to break into a bank vault. Having met a notorious gentleman thief (Michael Caine) during a prison stretch, they filch the plans for his next job and try to beat him to it. Their unlikely accomplices: a radical newspaper editor (Diane Keaton) and her band of ragged reformers, who want to use the loot to set up a milk fund for New York City's poor...
...came to London from Paris, where, as Horace Walpole says, "they walk about the streets in the rain with umbrellas to avoid putting on their hats." So whenever London coachmen see anyone using the device, they are apt to crack their whips and shout, "Frenchman!" Or sometimes, more elaborately, "Rain beau...