Word: crackings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Penned in a Normandy farmhouse, 13 paratroopers of the crack 82nd Division heard the rising crash of American rifle and mortar fire outside. Downstairs their German captors fought savagely in de fense of the house: the American prisoners heard the German commander tell his troops to fight to the last...
...Italy the 162nd Turkoman Infantry -former Russian prisoners officered by Germans-was fighting to help save Kesselring's army. Almond-eyed, some with pigtails, they had belonged to crack Red Army Siberian divisions, now were obviously helping the Germans for a meal ticket...
...terrific pace in Los Angeles last January with six under par for four rounds. In San Francisco, Nelson did even better, with a blistering 13 under par for 72 holes. Moving eastward, the competition kept going at such high pressure that one or the other seemed bound to crack. But neither did. At the end of ten major tournaments, McSpaden had piled up a dazzling total of 69 strokes under par, with Nelson only nine behind...
...most adventurous U.S. painting contractor bagged a new job last week. Vat-shaped (200 lb., 5 ft. 3 in.) Nathan Schriber flew from Denver to Kansas City to boss a $310,000 job. The job: to seal every crack in a big new Sunflower Ordnance Plant building, to brush the walls with a fire-and water-resisting paint. The job was important; the building will house the manufacture of a highly explosive and highly secret new gunpowder, and the structure must be tight against fires and floodings (from the sprinkler system...
Said one airman, thoroughly mindful of the Navy's crack job in the Pacific: "It is still a fact that they have never quite forgiven the Wright brothers for inventing the airplane...