Word: crackings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...enemy was fooled. When the invasion forces swept ashore some 30 miles below Rome, they met no opposition. Three crack German divisions which might have produced another Salerno had been ingeniously lured south, to save the sagging Gustav Line...
...Becasue its square-tipped wings and tail surfaces resembled those of the crack German Meserschmitt 109, the Mustang suffered a painful indignity on its first sweeps across the Channel: German AA gunners held their fire, but the British let go with everything they...
...their heads. "Eas ily, gracefully as a jumper on skis, Bastineau came down the chimney's broad, wooden shaft, his arms spread like a diver's, his eyes and teeth pure white and savage in his face." His heel snapped de Vaudois's wrist with a crack, his hand snatched a pistol, pumped bullets through the Nazi's heart. "So-vengeance," he snarled. Old Cousin Perrin shuffled in with food for the lovers. "The goat cheese is fresh," he observed, pulling the corpse into the passage. "This is just the beginning for all of us," said...
...Louis Post-Dispatch, for years a newspaperman's reverent synonym for crack reporting and militant crusading, was on the wrong side of an exclusive story of wrongdoing. Its yeasty afternoon competitor, the Star-Times, made the most...
...ambitious since the war, opened New Year's Day in Moscow's huge (capacity 75,000) Dynamo Stadium. Men skaters raced for prizes offered by the newspaper Red Sport. Figure skaters gave exhibitions. But the main event was a hockey match between two of Russia's crack sport clubs, the Dynamo and Spartak Societies...