Word: crackings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bank. On his right, Courtney Hodges' First Army had to cross a smaller stream, the Inde, before it could come up to the Roer. The Germans fought like wild men for the Inde also. Driven out of the town of Inden, they lanced back in with armor and crack infantry, blew up a bridge. Ousted again, they put down an artillery barrage in which the Yanks counted 60 shells a minute...
That done, Ohio State began its final push (with support from Iowa, Purdue, Northwestern) in a campaign to crack the Big Nine rule against postseason games. This week, Conference representatives meeting in Chicago said no, this was not the year to break the 24-year-old rule. The Big Nine champs would stay home on New Year's Day, and unbeaten, once-tied Tennessee would doubtless make the trip to Pasadena...
...contributed to the shortage. But the cigarets still were not to be found. The Senate war investigating committee decided to make a survey. Secretary of War Stimson called it a problem of supply, promised that the situation would be corrected "as soon as possible." General Eisenhower ordered MPs to crack down harder than ever on the black market, ordered the court-martial of all G.I.s engaged in shady deals...
During his 16 years in the ranks Jim Crowe was Marine-famed for two things: he was one of the world's topnotch rifle shots and for six years he was a crack player on the all-Marine football teams. He quit football in 1934, a year after an officer remarked: "Jim Crowe must be getting old. He used to make seven out of eight of the team's tackles. Today he made only half...
Fellow flyers ascribe McCampbell's success to: 1) crack marksmanship, 2) "more goddamned guts than any man you ever saw," 3) a sober regard for the enemy that keeps him primed for battle ("I have been shot full of holes three times but never shot down," says McCampbell, "and I never forget that"). But probably the biggest reason for it is that he fights for all he is worth. After one battle, the other pilots in his squadron returned with an average of 20 gallons of gasoline and 100 rounds of ammunition; McCampbell, who had his command...