Word: crackings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Batista took another crack at the dictator across the water. He ordered his Minister of the Interior, Antonio Bravo Costa, to legalize the belligerently Loyalist Spanish Republican Circle, outlawed since 1936 street riots with Franco Falangistas. He made no move to release the many Falangistas now jailed as fifth columnists...
...Consair division) for control of big additional air routes linking the U.S. with all Pacific battlefronts. The second is the relationship between the Army & Navy and airline operators. Pan American is still miffed because the Army abruptly took over its mushrooming Pan Africa last October (and grabbed some crack pilots and crewmen in the process), has since set up duplicating transport services in China...
...when they withstood the blitz of 1940. But a strong people had not prevented the loss of White Russia and the Ukraine. Would they be any better able to prevent the conquest of the Don basin, of Stalingrad, of the Caucasus? The strongest will to resist can eventually crack under continued defeat...
...Symphony Hall, Boston, when Rosenthal, of the stocky, powerful figure, eagle-beaked, massive-jawed, with black mane and Kaiser mustache, played the Liszt E-flat concerto, and Karl Muck leered over him on the conductor's stand, snapping the chords from the orchestra as a Mephistopheles would crack a whip over his minions, and the two played into each other's hands with a deviltry beyond words. Hah! The intrepidity, the dash, the saber and spur of it, the wild exhilaration, the reckless mastery of the whole business...
...Champion Sammy Angott; in the third round of a scheduled 15-rounder; at Manhattan's Madison Square Garden. Protégé of Bobby Jones and 21 other members of the Augusta National Golf Club, where he used to work as shoeshine boy, Beau Jack got his crack at the title by knocking out Allie Stolz, the then No. 1 contender, in his first appearance as a Garden headliner...