Word: cracking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard occasionally numbers among Lesley's defenders. The University sold Lesley the four properties last month, in return for a crack at some property Lesley owned on Sacramento...
...other hand, the Crimson stars had an easy day. Murphy and McNulty each ran only once, and the crack relay quartets were dissembled in favor of a hodge-podge of lesser runners. Only Dixon, who won the 600 and the 1000 and ran in the mile relay, had a full day's work; and he was not pressed in either of his victories...
...steel shell of the vault was now so hot from the fires raging below that the tiles laid over it were beginning to crack and buckle. We were all drenched in sweat. We were breathing through wet paper towels, very slowly and shallowly, trying to save oxygen...
...beginning of the Islamic New Year, a mysterious band of Muslim fanatics seized the Sacred Mosque of Mecca, taking an unknown number of hostages. At week's end, the situation at the Sacred Mosque was unclear. Government officials in Riyadh said that Saudi armed forces, including the crack National Guard commanded by Prince Abdullah ibn Abdul Aziz, were in "complete control" of the mosque. Other sources, however, suggested that some of the invaders were holding...
Fritz Campbell, the talented freshman from Montana, posted three straight wins last night to earn himself a crack at the winners semifinals against St. Lawrence's Barone, the number-one seeded 134-pounder who pinned all preliminary opposition. Campbell's final win of the evening looked like an exhibition on takedowns. He allowed Barone to escape time after time and then leveled him moments later...