Word: crackings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...will be months-perhaps many months-before Lord Louis Mountbatten's forces strike in strength. But, on the Burma borders, Allied power is already manifest. In the north, an Allied push clawed forward on schedule. Columns of crack Chinese troops in three weeks had advanced 50 miles, were at the southern tip of the 50-mile-long Hukawng Valley (see map). In the Chin hills to the south and west, where opium-smoking tribes men are still loyal, the British claimed the west bank of the Chindwin. The campaign has a limited but sharply important objective...
Into Washington's Boiling Field, on a four-engined bomber from India, came Eric Sevareid, crack CBS reporter; within four hours he was popped before a microphone to give these sharp-cut impressions of the India-Burma-China theater...
...four pages are usually crowded with war news from crack correspondents like Alan Moorehead in Algiers, C. V. R. Thompson in New York. But the Express is at its best on stories about murders, sex, abandoned babies and the more maudlin doings of Soho underworldlings. The U.S. staff (three reporters in New York, a man each in Washington, Chicago, Los Angeles) files about 3,000 words daily, is never surprised to get a cable like: "RUSH...
Bill Miller had no chance to be a col lege athlete: he quit grammar school to help support his family. By 1938 he had an oil company soft job and a reputation as a crack basketball coach. Teams coached by him and his disciples won nine national championships in ten years. A onetime player himself, Miller concluded that the trouble with most coaches is that they teach the game but ignore the control of the body. Body control became Bill Miller's religion. He resigned to preach his faith full time...
Sharper Brains. The Army was interested but unconvinced by Miller's informal and solitary experiment. He turned to tired, tense businessmen to prove that a loose, energy-conserving body means a keener mind in the clutches. Miller proved a crack salesman. Fat fees flowed in from Tulsa and Kansas City oiligarchs...