Word: cracking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...always, the highlight of each posada (literally, an inn) was the breaking of the piñata, a big clay pot. The piñata, filled with presents and decorated with gay streamers, was hung from the ceiling. One by one guests were blindfolded, spun around, and allowed to crack at the pinata with a palo (stick). Usually they missed. Then the smallest child was allowed to split it open, whereupon everyone dived for the shower of candies, fruits and toys...
...Journal of the American Institute of Architects tells about a new building material called Pyrok. When sprayed from a special gun, Pyrok sticks to almost any surface (from strawboard to steel) and rapidly builds up a wall of any desired thickness. A sledgehammer ,blow dents but does not crack it. It is waterproof, weatherproof, fireproof, and an excellent insulator, but can be sawed and nailed like wood...
...private, drove his own jeep, ate with his men. U.S. General Albert C. Wedemeyer had found those men the best-drilled soldiers in China. So, before that, had the Japanese whom General Fu harried for eight years. And so, last year, had the Chinese Communists; Fu's crack cavalry had caught them unprepared in Kalgan, had driven them out and reopened 500 miles of railroad west of Peiping. That area was still firmly in government hands, thanks...
...took his ring name from a crack Negro welterweight of half a century ago, who, like Jersey Joe's father, was born in Barbados...
...racing colors have won all but a few of the nation's major racing classics, including the Santa Anita Derby, the Preakness, the Belmont Stakes, the Saratoga Special, a score of others. Trainer Hirsch summed up what Kleberg was trying to do: "Either Assault or Stymie would make crack cow horses." In the words of a cattleman, "cow horses can start fast, turn on a dime and give you 9? change...