Word: crackings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Aces. Squadron Leader Bert Houle, of Massey, Ont., commanded the crack City of Windsor Squadron which fought in Malta, the Middle East, Britain. He was best known for getting two Germans in 15 seconds. He "squirted" at one, went underneath it, saw another, "squirted" him too. He wore the D.F.C...
...Japanese conception of morale, which includes a devoted belief in suicide rather than surrender, beginning to crack? Some observers who had seen Japanese blow themselves up at Guadalcanal...
...moors with a pack of hounds. (Sir Sit-well's ghost occasionally appeared at Reni-shaw, peering gloomily through the glass front door.) Another ancestor was Lord Hutchinson of Alexandria and Knock-lofty, whose father succeeded in making one of his nieces the full-salaried colonel of a crack regiment. He protested bitterly when the War Office reduced the old lady to half...
That class is noted for two things: 1) its crack baseball team; 2) its U.S. generals in World War II. Omar Bradley played in the outfield, batted .383 and is still remembered at the Point for his great throwing arm. He was also the first member of the class to pin on a general officer's stars (when he took command at Fort Benning as a brigadier general in February...
...communication to the War Department, Lieut. Farr indicated the tone that Yanks would take, took a passing crack at phony warcasting. Wrote Farr...