Word: crackings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sammy, a crack football man in all branches, earns $15,000 a year for pitching passes in baseball style.* They are quick, hard, fast and accurate. Most go for only five to 15 yards. Against the Giants. Slingin' Sammy's 16 bull's-eyes were worth only 199 yards. But they set up the first two touchdowns, and four Baugh bullets in a row covered 46 yards for the final score...
Sting the Hornets. Under one of the Navy's crack carrier commanders, Rear Admiral Charles A. Pownall, powerful task forces plowed through the night toward atolls 500 miles north and west of the Gilberts. At least four carriers, perhaps more, readied their winged brood. At day break torpedo and dive bombers and Hellcat escorts swarmed from the flattops. Their objectives: Kwajalein and Wotje atolls, the Marshalls' strongest points...
Meanwhile the gloomy air of the weather office pervaded all of Cambridge as the meteorologist announced that the thermometer would hover around zero today. And as Boston prepared for a siege of December that may rival last year's, residents of Maine and New Hampshire heard the roofs crack over their heads while the wood contracted...
Italy. Allied armies struck at opposite hinges of the German line, dented but did not crack the enemy barriers before Rome...
General Sir Bernard Law Montgomery's Eighth led with a crack at the Germans' Adriatic jaw. General Mark Clark's Fifth Army followed with a smash at the Tyrrhenian side. Both blows were aimed ultimately at Rome, where the Allies had once hoped to be before Christmas...