Word: crackings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shift that surprised London military men will send Lieut. General Ira C. Eaker, commander of the U.S. Eighth Air Force, down to the Mediterranean to lead all Allied air operations in that theater, and bring Major General James H. Doolittle up as chief of the Eighth. Eaker, a crack officer with an unparalleled grasp of the problems of daylight precision bombing, had fought long and successfully for that American theory of air attack. Few of his friends could doubt that he must be deeply disappointed at departing now, just when he had built his air force to the point...
...boycott was immediately effective. The world-famed ski meet on Holmenkollen, attracting 450 crack jumpers, was abandoned. When quislings tried to organize their own Holmenkollen meet, only 20 nonentities signed up. When a quisling was made president of the Oslo Gymnastic Society, all 7,000 members resigned. Sixty-four wrestlers signed up for matches with Denmark. Day of the elimination contests, not one appeared...
Most dangerous part of the strike are the surreptitious championships, particularly in skiing. Last winter's ended in tragedy. One Sunday afternoon, 90 crack jumpers mysteriously appeared on a hillside near Oslo. Asbjoern Ruud had barely made the winning leap of 72 meters (234 ft.) when the police arrived. The new champion was dragged off to concentration camp along with 24 other competitors...
Behind magnificent line play, Luckman threw five touchdown passes. Fourteen times his soft spirals connected, for 276 yards. But while most of this was going on, Baugh was off the field. Early in the game, an accidental but vicious crack on the head (while tackling Luckman) sent Sammy to the dressing room. He came back for about 10 minutes of the second half, barely time enough to toss two touchdown passes himself...
...denied that there were any airships over Nebraska, but there were plenty of loyal Nebraskans to testify that the pilot of one low-flying craft leaned out, snatched up a farmer's chicken and dropped a note. It read: "This dodgasted airship business is not what some people crack it up to be. My vehicle is out of order and will not come down. . . . Excuse haste and poor writing, and search for my remains...