Word: crackings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...towns of Provence stirred uneasily in the hot August sun. This year there were no vacationing Parisians on the beaches but a new wave of American tourists had arrived. Through the nodding summer countryside came the faint chatter of machine-gun fire, the roar of a big gun, the crack of a rifle. On dusty roads columns of tanks grumbled by, and above them fighter planes rode busily to work...
...charge of demobilization plans is 51-year-old Brigadier General William F. Tompkins, a soft-voiced, lantern-jawed Virginian who in 29 years has had a crack at just about every job there is in a military career, including flood control. He has been what the Army calls a "farmed-out" officer all his life. He has three sons in the services: one a major in the engineers, one a pursuit pilot in England, the third a marine in training...
...hour later our Air Group was aboard. "Give us one more crack at those Jap airfields," they pleaded,"and there'll be no more Jap planes on Java." The Captain's sympathies were with them but he was acting under orders-and the job on Surabaya had been completed...
...boss its most important new pioneering job in air combat today, the U.S. Army Air Forces last week picked one of its youngest, yeastiest generals. Burly Major General Curtis Emerson LeMay, 37, crack Flying Fortressman, was detached from the European Theater and ordered to China to take command of the A.A.F...
...First crack in the crew's silence is opened by congenial Lieut. Williams. Pleased that a German officer recognizes his Boston accent, he chattily lets drop the fact that wounded Sergeant Cole is from Atlanta. A pretty little German nurse promptly knocks Cole's guard down by confiding that she has just finished Gone With the Wind. Enamored, he never suspects a thing when she produces a fake Red Cross form and gets him to fill in his unit's number and its base (Naples...