Word: crackings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...heavyweight championship (TIME, June 25, 1934), Jimmy Braddock managed to get back into his old profession. And by an equally unforeseen victory over Art Lasky, in whom the Garden management hoped to find a suitable match for Champion Baer. Jimmy Braddock himself was now about to have a crack at the heavyweight championship of the world. As he slipped the blue bathrobe from his pink back, he was the sentimental favorite of a Bowl crowd of 30,000, most of whom had bet their money 8-to-1 against...
...coalition began to crack apart. From his ship Señor Quezon radioed threats that he would not lead the ticket unless the coalition stuck together...
...Crack-pated Manhattan Communists call the perspiring Irish police who crack their pates in Union Square "The Cossacks!" Last week the world's true Cossacks, crack cavalrymen of Tsar Nicholas II who are now mostly taxicab drivers, doormen, janitors and such, conducted by mail the first election for their supreme Cossack chief or Ataman ever held outside Russia...
Premier Gömbös' position was delicate. He is a graduate of the Military Training School for Gymnastics & Fencing, a member of the Hungarian military elite, a crack swordsman and pistol shot, wounded and decorated in the War and now a Field Marshal. The Hungarian military code of honor demanded that Soldier Gömbös give Civilian Eckhardt satisfaction, as he has already done for many another man. But Politician Gömbös, as realistic as he is vain, might be seriously compromised by a duel. For as Premier it is his uncongenial...
...insurance company's $15,000 reward had been planned with a Scaffa operative in for $1,000. A Federal Grand Jury in New York promptly summoned Detective Scaffa for questioning. Chief J. Edgar Hoover let it be known that his Federal Bureau of Investigation was about to crack open a criminal ring which would make the late John Dillinger & gang look like apple-snitchers...