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Word: cracking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Larry Bird, a farmer's son from French Lick, Ind., doesn't even crack a smile. He just scores the first hoop of the year for the Celtics, and follows it up seconds later with a full-court lob that catches M.L. Carr with two strides to go to the hoop. Fans go wild, Bird makes a few more spectacular passes, and then he sits down. He isn't the standout, not until the next night in Cleveland when he sinks 12 of 17 shots and scores 28 points. But nobody is disappointed Friday --at least not in Section...

Author: By Bill Mckibben, | Title: Larry Bird -- Savior for Section 80 | 10/15/1979 | See Source »

Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! Rage! Blow...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: Not the Promis'd End | 10/15/1979 | See Source »

...Field hockey on turf is a different game," Ippolito said. "That's where we're really going to shine." And if the Crimson comes up with two performances like yesterday's, the team will undoubtably crack the top twenty...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Field Leads Stickwomen Past Cornell | 10/13/1979 | See Source »

With the air pressure that had built up in the cabin and cockpit as the plane climbed, the aft bulkhead buckled, apparently because of an almost invisible 12-in. crack. The sudden decompression blew off the entire nonpressurized tail cone-a lO-ft.-long metal shell serving mainly to streamline the fuselage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Air Scares | 10/1/1979 | See Source »

...Canada had increased its inspections, but its mechanics overlooked the crack in the Boston plane until they re-examined old X rays of the bulkhead after the accident. Last week the FAA ordered U.S. carriers to make a special inspection of their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Air Scares | 10/1/1979 | See Source »

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