Word: crackings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...past performances in parading the power & splendor of French armed might on the Champs Elysées in Paris. Attending the celebrations will be Sultan Sidi Mohammed of French-protected Morocco, and Emperor Bao Dai of Annam, in Indo-China. Native troops from the French Empire will march alongside crack French regiments. Also in line will be a detachment from British Guards Regiments which have gone to France more than once in the past few centuries on less peaceful missions. Far more significant, zooming overhead will be five squadrons of Spitfire and Hurricane fighting planes, and Blenheim, Hampden and Wellington...
...declared a virtual protectorate over the Mongol Peoples' Republic, raised a Mongol Army of 250,000 and equipped it with modern military gadgets-artillery, tanks, machine guns, righting planes. The Mongol Army's greatest accomplishment has been to keep some 350,000 of Japan's crack troops and much of its best equipment tied up, far from the front...
Last fortnight, bothered by a heaviness in her belly at night, the old woman screwed up her courage to see Dr. Joseph Gilbert Israel, crack Detroit gynecologist. Dr. Israel palpated her abdomen, discovered a hard, round object like a baseball. His first astonished thought was that she, aged 66, was going to have a baby. But the object was too hard to be a living baby's head. Besides it was outside the womb...
Promptly after his election last March Pope Pius XII tossed a lifeline to a sinking friend, once-honored General Umberto Nobile. Mussolini had busted Airman Nobile out of the service when his 1928 Polar expedition ended with the crack-up of the dirigible Italia which killed eight crew members, ended Italy's lighter-than-aircraft dreams. In his small flat near the Tiber, where few friends dared visit him, Umberto Nobile silently endured the usual fate of Fascism's failures-ostracism. Only honor left was his membership in the Pontifical Academy of Science, conferred by the late Pius...
Growing Up. Christopher Robin Milne no longer goes hippity hoppity, nor looks behind curtains for tickly brownies, nor muses over a name for his dear little dormouse. The hero of When We Were Very Young, now 19 and a crack squash player, leaves Stowe prep school this term, goes next fall to Trinity College, Cambridge, where he is winner of a ?100 scholarship in mathematics...