Word: cracking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...world unity and peace. For that, at least, loudmouthed Dictator Tito deserved the West's gratitude. As one American observer in Europe put it last week: "The time is surely come when the West should stop thinking of communism as a block which might splinter but can never crack...
...Open Road. One day, consumed with the U.S. passion for setting records, he decided to hit the road and crack at least one safe in every state. Up to then he had worked in 15 states all told. "I used to be a great one for two and three and four a night," boasted Parry. "One night I made them 205 miles apart." He made as little as 55? and as much as $26,000 in a haul. Having widened his field, he was in New Hampshire with only Vermont to go when he decided to pass up Vermont...
...Steffens: "You don't know how to edit a magazine." Snapped Steffens: "How can I learn?" Said McClure: "You can't learn here . . . Buy a railroad ticket, get on a train, and there, where it lands you, there you will learn." Steffens, then 36, and already a crack reporter (New York Evening-Post), bought a ticket to Chicago. Before his U.S. travels were over, he had written The Shame of the Cities, a sizzling series of articles on nationwide municipal corruption. The series made Steffens famous and helped make McClure's the most influential publication...
After the crack-up, the local atmosphere--"typical farmer" and his "typical farm family"--so affects to embezzler that he confesses, and so affects Miss Fontaine that she falls in love with Mr. Stewart. From then on everything is according to Hoyle...
...Capital. For its negotiating at home & abroad, Pan Am has a crack diplomatic corps topped, of course, by Trippe, who is his own persuasive, far-seeing secretary of state. He keeps on excellent terms with 73 nations, running all the way from democracies to dictatorships, by a simple rule: he never ties himself to any political party, and he keeps his political opinions to himself...