Word: crackings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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These thousands of proven fighters would make a worthy windfall for the French Army, and these men, driven from their homes by totalitarian aggression, should be anxious for a crack at Hitler, without whose help Franco could have never...
...dive, he almost intercepted an Army lorry which was moving innocently along the road. If, later on in the war, you read about a British ace whose name begins with L, it will probably be this young man. His own comrades, who themselves have qualified for this crack squadron, say he is the fanciest aviator in the R. A. F. and we believe...
...scrupulous about fulfilling obligations, never breaks a promise. He used to make it a rule never to read manuscripts submitted to him for criticism by budding philosophers. But applicants learned how to get around his rule: they brought manuscripts to his office. Dewey peeked at them through a crack in the door, invariably melted and let them in. Having promised to read and criticize a manuscript, he always did so-even if he sent it back to the wrong address...
Soviet Demands. The war-ready Finns took pride in moving with snail-like slowness at the crack of Joseph Stalin's demand that they send a delegation to Moscow (TIME, Oct. 16). Instead of coming by air, as the panicky envoys of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania have done, Finnish Chief Delegate Dr. Juho Kusti Paasikivi rolled comfortably into Moscow by train one morning. At 2:30 p.m. Soviet Premier Viacheslav Molotov received U. S. Ambassador Laurence A. Steinhardt who brought from President Roosevelt a personal message of "earnest hope that nothing may occur that would be calculated to affect...
...Corriere Padano of Ferrara, a minor Fascist organ, founded by Air Marshal Italo Balbo, Governor of Libya, took the crack at Bolshevism for which all Italians were itching: "We are born antiCommunists, and we intend to remain so. We have not an ounce of sympathy for the Bolsheviks, who are tragic buffoons, professional tricksters, models of vulgar bestiality, living monsters serving the most insane and infamous enterprise of subjugation, cruelty and human degredation which universal history can recall...