Word: cracking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...screenplay follows the novel closely. Gregory Peck is assigned by a magazine to write a series of articles on antiSemitism. To gather material, he decides to pretend to be a Jew for a few months. In a few weeks he suffers shocks that crack up his love affair, and, almost, his personality. But all ends well with him-if not with the world...
Buzz Sawhill's improving Jayvee soccer team gets a crack today at the Jayvee of one of the current powers in New England soccer when it meets the second team from Springfield College, the physical education school, this afternoon on the Business School Field...
...little before 8, the trestles holding back the crowd at the Etoile gave way with a loud crack, and the demonstrators swarmed over the police. Up to this point the police had acted with restraint; now came the peremptory order to clear the avenue completely. Suddenly everything was incredibly confused; I tried to get out of the melee by flattening myself against a tree. Police batons flailed, crashed with a sickening crunch on faces and shoulders. The Gardes Mobiles drove their rifle butts at the heads of the oncoming Communists; one of the police was shouting "Salauds, salauds...
...Hogan & Co. of the U.S. were waiting on the rain-flooded Portland Golf Club course to take them apart. They did, 11-1. It was the worst shellacking any Ryder Cup team had taken in 16 years. Said Britain's crack pro Henry Cotton: "We didn't deserve...
...Soldiers Field lot, the Corporation has demanded tangible evidence that a large number of undergraduates will participate. It has taken the Student Council three weeks to prepare the poll and will take another three weeks before the University can prepare the lot. Meanwhile, the police captains are planning to crack down on illegal parking in the Harvard Square area, and as the Council itself has said: "Once they crack down, it will not be safe to leave a car on the street." If in the next few weeks, car owners are caught without parking space in the midst...