Word: cracking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...best figure for any big-time shortstop in modern baseball history. Appling makes more errors than a star infielder should, but he has led American League shortstops seven times in number of assists, and he is a wizard with bad-hopping grounders. He has made a crack double-play man out of the Sox's young second baseman, Cass Michaels, with whom Appling rooms on the road...
Down to the Bone. In & out of the food business since he was twelve (when he sold peanuts & popcorn), Jimmy Dobbs had long considered it something of a sideline. His big business has been selling cars. A crack salesman at 26, when he made $13,000 a year, he borrowed $20,000 from his boss and teamed up with a hard-headed engineer, Horace H. Hull, to form a Memphis Ford agency...
...dozen reporters and photographers poured out of the jampacked car. After hastily pitching a brown tent by the roadside as a temporary city room, the journalistic task force spread out to hunt for clues. Asahi (Rising Sun), the Far East's biggest and best newspaper, was out to crack the crime...
...only real fun to be had from the belaboring of this plot comes from Ronald Reagan, who rarely gets a crack at light comedy. He does a good job of giving some old gags a new gloss; and masquerading as an immigrant student in one of Schoolmarm Mayo's naturalization classes, he gets off an excellent range of muddled European accents. Brightest piece of invention: a bit of hot-weather Americana, in which the sound track picks up the nasal lovemaking of a Brooklyn couple in the moonlit shadows of Jones Beach...
Hard Work. In Denver, police reached the scene of the crime in time to arrest Warren McWilliams, who had worked so long and so hard trying to crack a safe that he finally fell asleep...