Word: crackings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...where the Legislature of Rio Grande do Sul has been split between the majority supporters of President Vargas and the minority party of ambitious swashbuckling Governor Francisco Flores da Cunha, ominous telegrams began flying up to Rio de Janeiro. Majority leaders accused Governor Flores da Cunha of mobilizing his crack State army of 30,000 men to gain control of the Legislature. He was, moreover, "liberating criminals who are infesting the capital and the interior," planning to seize the State's telegraph and telephone system...
During the next few weeks without rousing the suspicions of even crack Washington correspondents. Mr. Lewis frequently slipped away to the Mayflower, trudging the floor of the steelmaster's suite, Taylor sitting thoughtfully in an armchair...
...were soon quieted and the excitement they caused passed. But the excitement caused by the show that took place during the next 30 minutes will not soon be forgotten by persons who take a serious interest in U. S. drama. For Poet MacLeish seems to have solved at one crack two long-troublesome theatrical problems: what to do about verse plays and what to do with the radio...
...first two cars managed to keep to the rails as the juggernaut sped around the corner from Brattle Street into Massachusetts Avenue, but this mechanized game of crack-the-whip was too much for car No. 3, which jumped the track, carrying Nos. 1 and 3 with it five feet off the roadbed...
...vacation is the time to watch the spring come in, not to fly to tropical summer or to stretch out winter to the crack of doom. It's the time for a dash on the young colt through country lanes in Connecticut, for tramping over wet hills, bag over shoulder, pushing a golf ball from bog to bog, trap to trap, and every so often sinking a birdie. Time to rise with the dawn, and hark to the lark in the trees by the edge of the lake in the morning mist, and watch the forsythia push forth in glory...