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Word: cracking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Lindsey's shuffling of Scripture is enough to discredit his book. I would rather be caught by the sudden crack of doom than live day to day in frightened contemplation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 26, 1979 | 3/26/1979 | See Source »

...trip. The southern swing matches do not count for the team's record, but Felske feels the rugged competition, against a host of top-ranked schools, will prime his squad for the rigors ahead. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Duke and the University of Virginia could all crack the nation's Top 20 this year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Women Go South to Prepare For '79 'Life in the Fast Lane' | 3/21/1979 | See Source »

...faithful have been trekking to Aurora to search for the small spaceman's grave. "Sometimes they take souvenirs, and a couple of years back somebody stole the spaceman's tombstone," says H.R. Idell, the town marshal, referring to a big rock with a mysterious-looking crack in it. "But mostly folks just poke around in the ruins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americana: Close Encounters of a Kind | 3/12/1979 | See Source »

...swift, hit-and-run offensive, and then go home. But the Chinese were not yet ready to withdraw. At this point the Chinese shock troops, led by General Yang Teh-chih, China's deputy field commander in the Korean War, had not tangled directly with Viet Nam's crack regular army?battle-tested by victorious successive campaigns in South Viet Nam, Laos and Cambodia and equipped with the latest sophisticated Soviet hardware...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A War of Angry Cousins | 3/5/1979 | See Source »

...Bride of Frankenstein than in Interiors. God, what a wheeze-bag bore. I was embarrassed for Woody Allen. Oooh, were those actors acting. Oooh, spilling their guts out into the camera, "I'm so empty I'm so depressed I've got so much anger in me Watch me crack up Boo-hoo isn't life depressing Look at those waves I'm gonna walk into the surf Whoosh whoosh crash splash." Bleah. That's Woody Allen trying to be arty. All that Freudian bullshit.... I like the guy, he's genius and all that, but he tried...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Many Masks of DeWitt | 3/1/1979 | See Source »

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