Word: cracking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Seven eight-oared shells bobbed on the waters of the Hudson. To the rear bobbed in unison a strange assortment of craft. On the banks of the river a large, hot, cheering crowd yelled their lungs inside out. "Crack," snapped the starter's gun, and 56 oars buried themselves in the water, while seven megaphoned coxes roared at their crews. Thus began the Varsity eight-oar shell race of the Intercollegiate Regetta...
...heard the crack of Carthaginian whips...
Twenty-five years ago, on July 29, the crack of an assassin's gun was heard in Rome: King Umberto had been murdered. Twenty-five years ago, on August 9, Prince Vittorio Emanuele was proclaimed King...
...seven miles every morning to visit his son's grave. Reporter George Kellogg, writing about him for Bernarr Macfadden's Physical Culture, describes how Dr. Harding returns from that walk "breathing through his nostrils, his color high, his eyes snapping, shoulders back, chin in, step like the crack of a whip." He relates how he still practises medicine with offices in the antique building that houses the Marion Star, where "the old gentleman, either sitting straight as an arrow at his desk when he fancies the posture, or sprawling down in a deep chair when he feels that...
...long table on a platform. Kalinin, Kamenev, Rykov, Zinoviev were similarly elected. "Trotzky," boomed a voice and up jumped the ex-War Lord. A tremendous ovation greeted him. Cheer upon cheer shook the walls of the Opera House and made the plaudits for the other leaders seem like the crack of a rifle to the boom of a howitzer...