Word: crackings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cracked the Daily Mirror: "Some few mitigations may be allowed in the certainty of relieving depression, discouragement, dismay, accidents, blindness and boredom. Until then, we submissively bow our heads and, as we bow them, crack them into other heads bowed in the opposite direction...
Fred Stone always used to say during his musical comedy days that he wanted a crack at the legitimate drama. In his second attempt with "You Can't Take It With You," he carried the complete weight of a show which besides Stone has nothing to offer but a badly frayed script and a conglomeration of poorish actors...
Farther north, the maiden's soldier only a month before had begun his attack against Orel, opening with a devastating barrage from (dispatches said) 3,000 gun barrels to a mile of front. Now he was pushing crack young German troops back on Bryansk and fighting 1,000 German planes a day that hammered at his ad vance...
...other races, unimaginative Gunder had to have competition to pace him if he was still to beat his world mark. For the Randall's Island show, two crack U.S. runners turned out: young Bill Hulse (whom Hägg regards as the most promising American miler) and Divinity Student Gilbert Dodds...
...line of facile patter Charlie clicks rabbits out of his green felt hat, has his gallery alternately rolling in the aisles and sitting on the edges of their seats. Typical crack out of his million-gag grab bag (after a difficult miss): "Gentlemen, you have just seen me tie the great Willie Hoppe. He can't make that shot either." Typical sample (named "Over the Top") from his 600 trick-shot repertoire: after making two cushions, the cue ball jumps up on the wooden rail, rolls along its full length, drops off to complete a perfect around-the-table...