Word: crackings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...frenzied and ingenious service at the hands of Spanish mountaineers. More properly, the mountainers served the gun: its dignity and its power coalesced half-hearted and wrangling bandits into an army which swelled from two to ten thousand. This armv's third leader, a mountain boy, destroyed a crack French regiment with the gun. He was nudging to pieces a fortress wall ten feet thick when another 18-pounder put an end to the gun and thawed to nothing the ill-disciplined army it had held together. But by that time the brutal nobility of a machine had made...
...interesting to note that gray suits are being worn this season--we had almost forgotten! But the boys are a lot more self-conscious about their civilian suits than we are. We know they're doing what they were ordered to do. The most often heard crack of the evening was the one about the boys going in the Army-soon in order to relieve the WAACs for active duty! Another cynical member of the QMC remarked that this was a funny world--there was a war on and here were all the women in uniform...
...Class of 1946 will take its last official crack at a good time for the duration with the presentation of the Jubilee "sometime in April," Frank S. Whiting '46, chairman of the Freshman Committee, announced last night...
...American people want the facts. . . . One's imagination is not broad enough to conjure up a true picture of the horrors of war. We must see and read about it first hand. It will take a crack on the chin to make us stand up and fight. Don't let us bask in the sunshine of victory, nibbling on chocolate-covered communiques of military achievement, while our sons and brothers and husbands are wallowing in the mud and blood of war throughout the world...
...pull it out, send it soaring again, WPB this week gave more power to the director of its Aircraft Control Resources Office. T. P. (for Theodore Paul) Wright, crack aeronautical engineer and production man, got full authority over manpower, materials and machine tools for plane production. To the armed services, irked by civilian control over war building, no civilian could have been more acceptable. Ted Wright, onetime director of engineering and vice president of Curtiss-Wright, is an old hand at dealing with them, should be able to sweat more aircraft through WPB's red tape...