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Word: crackerjacks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...School will also be the scene of some excitement tomorrow night when Bowie Kuhn, commissioner and imperial majesty of baseball, will be the guest of the Law School Forum. Peanut and crackerjack aficionados will want to be in the Ames Courtroom in Austin Hall well before the first pitch is thrown at 8 p.m. to ensure they get box seats...

Author: By Gideon Gil, | Title: Old Ghosts and a Bow from the Crackerjack King | 5/4/1978 | See Source »

...Campus crackerjack cravers...

Author: By Gideon Gil, | Title: Old Ghosts and a Bow from the Crackerjack King | 5/4/1978 | See Source »

...been a crackerjack of a funeral, to borrow a term and an attitude from Hubert Humphrey's own exuberant life. How he would have loved it. Airplanes and military honors, the President and the pages, good old hymns badly but enthusiastically sung, organs booming and preachers praying mightily all across the country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY by HUGH SIDEY: Humphrey: What a Lucky Guy, What a Life | 1/23/1978 | See Source »

...Soviet-owned agency for four of the 16 Soviet lines hauling cargo to and from the U.S. A graduate of the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy, Novacek was once president of Grace Line, then executive vice president of Seatrain Lines. He formed Moram in 1976, and now has a crackerjack sales force of more than 33 salespeople. Novacek runs the agency, according to his own account, in the style of any Western company, drawing up an annual plan for approval from his superiors in Moscow. To charges that the Soviets are deliberately running deficits to "buy" cargo business from foreign competitors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Piracy or Profit on the High Seas? | 12/5/1977 | See Source »

...slang for child molester, the one kind of felon all the others deplore, and when Prisoner Clark Davis (Bruce Davison) arrives at the Tombs, the moral and emotional tensions of the cell block are brought into powerful relief. Like Eugene O'Neill's Iceman, Davis is a crackerjack theatrical device; thanks to Davison's finely shaded performance, he is also the most disturbing character in a film full of blistered souls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Quick Cuts | 10/10/1977 | See Source »

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