Word: crackings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...clamp down on the dirty dives; let's crack down harder on drunken drivers; let's ration our remaining supply of drinkables. And let's quit arguing over prohibition till the war is won and the boys are home to discuss...
...took guts or sheer stupidity (or both) to make a crack like that. Laborites were out baying after Jerry Land before an investment banker could say "excess profits." Joseph Edwin Curran, National Maritime Union president: "We've known all along what that old bird 'thinks of labor. ... He should be removed so the war effort should not be further impeded." Philip Murray, C.I.O. president: ". . . one of the most dangerous blows at the unity of this nation. . . ." William Green, A.F. ofL. boss: ". . . stupidity and utter ridiculousness...
...give her father political support in return for her smiles and wiles, but it takes him the whole picture to straighten things out. And in the end, with a little help from Veronica, he acts perfectly normal. The guy, who in "This Gun For Hire" didn't even crack a smile, smoulders when she turns on the heat...
Came a hectic two weeks, but Forbes got through it, turned his semi-finished product over to Night Editor George Bradley, went back to cigar chewing. After two weeks Bradley, a crack copy editor, exploded. "These girls," he roared to Ayers, "don't know what I'm talking about when I tell them anything about style, and they have no idea of what's going on in the world...
South American journalism is more hazardous than the North American brand. La Prensa's publisher and principal owner, Ezequiel Pedro Paz, Don José's son, has twice been challenged to a duel. Because he is a crack pistol shot, neither duel was fought. Now over 70, Don Ezequiel shows up at the paper punctually at 5 p.m. for the daily editorial conference with Editor-in-Chief Dr. Rodolfo N. Luque. Present also is his nephew and heir-apparent, handsome Alberto Gainza ("Tito") Paz, 43, father of eight and ex-Argentine open golf champion. Significantly, La Prensa...