Word: crackings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rather than crack the Coalition at mid-invasion (and probably commit party suicide). Greenwood & Co. simply resolved not to vote. Labor Minister Ernest Bevin propelled his big bulk across the House floor, stopped in front of Greenwood Grated Bevin: "So you won't vote, eh?" Greenwood grinned at him, turned with a grin to the nearly 200 Laborites ranged behind him, sat tight. So did they. Once again, they were in revolt against their own leaders in the Government...
Benito Mussolini, according to a report from the New York Times' crack Rome Correspondent Herbert L. Matthews, lost 50 pounds in the last nerve-racking month of his dictatorship. Source for the story was an Italian army doctor who treated Mussolini's ulcers, heard him complain: "The Italian people is a superficial people in every way, even in religion. They believe in a saint only when, and to the extent that he answers their prayers. . . . They cover themselves with a varnish that has no depth and leaves no trace...
...Division: Major General Raymond O. Barton, 54, stocky, genial West Pointer, former professor of military science at Georgetown, rated a crack tactician...
...enemy thrusts ran into British tanks, firing over hilltops, and high-velocity antitank guns, blasting from the hedgerows or forest edges. Heavier attacks were driven off by British artillery, which dumped shells like loads of coal onto the advancing Panzer formations. The Nazis could not crack the British positions. The enemy might delay Caen's fall; he could not prevent...
...Group Twelve, crack bomber-torpedo-fighter outfit of a famed U.S. carrier, was back in the U.S. last week after 15 months of campaigning from Pearl Harbor to Trincomalee. By their own account, there was not a hero among them...