Word: crackings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...extend himself unless he sees other horses in front of him. Once he gets in front (which he has done 27 times in his 29 races), he seems to relax, looks at the scenery and even throws a glance at the stands. Such inattention sometimes calls for a solid crack on the rump, which his jockey may have to repeat...
Like a shotgun blast in a cornfield, Harry Truman's crack about too many "Byrds in the Congress" set off indignant flappings and cawings over Capitol Hill. The old cry of "purge" rang through its tiled corridors. The President was annoyed that the crack got out; he hadn't meant his caller (A.V.C. Chairman Gil Harrison) to repeat it. At his news conference he refused to amplify the remark, declared that he was not interested in purges. The people, he said tartly, would take care of that...
...Many who did fight were captured and are in government prisons. In an old Turkish jail at Ioannina there are 300 such captives. I spoke to some of them who had belonged to the guerrillas' crack Ypsilanti Brigade. One, an 18-year-old officer, trained in Bulgaria, said he was told by the Communists that the U.S. wanted Greece for a colony. 'Sometimes when losses were heavy,' he said, 'we wondered if perhaps we had made a mistake...
Swedes stepped from the stand, exhausted, they had the zazous mopping their brows too. "Who would have thought those cold Nordics could burn so hot?" they marveled, and "hot enough to crack those icebergs...
Home of the Brave. Hollywood's first crack at anti-Negro discrimination, delivered with the courage of its convictions (TIME...