Word: crackerjacks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Former Supreme Court Justice Tom Clark yesterday called McCree "very capable and diligent. He is highly regarded by all judges and would make a crackerjack solicitor general...
...summers are hot in Phoenix, and perhaps that's why nothing much happened since the murder. The Republic and the Phoenix Gazette both offered a $25,000 reward for information leading to the solution of the murder. There was some talk of a crackerjack investigative team made up of ten or so of the best reporters in the country, converging on Phoenix to work on the case. But nothing ever came of it, and it probably wasn't a very good idea anyway...
...your education and the University community will get the most out of you. A match made in heaven. Of course, the general premise Harvard is working on is that if you were a high school star (and chances are excellent that you were) you will be a college crackerjack. Harvard prides itself on being an academic hothouse which offers all its promising seedlings the best environment for them to bloom in. Yet there were some that didn't quite take root...
Second-decade rockers were dealing in primal screams in 1967 when Roberta Flack came along with her sweet, sensuous voice, an authentic light among trays of crackerjack sparklers. Flack turned The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face (1972) and Killing Me Softly with His Song (1973) into blockbuster hits. She began collecting her four gold singles and two gold albums. By the end of 1973 she had won a pair of Grammy awards. But one day, glancing at a copy of her album First Take, she realized suddenly that "I could not go through life playing First Time Ever...
Died. Harry Manning, 77, retired Vice Admiral of the U.S. Maritime Service, a crackerjack seaman who executed the bone-chilling lifeboat rescue of the crew of the Italian freighter Florida in 1929, accompanied Amelia Earhart as navigator on her first attempt to fly around the globe, and skippered the passenger liner United States on her 1952 maiden voyage across the Atlantic and back in record time (6 days, 22 hours, 52 minutes); after a long illness; in Saddle River...