Word: crackings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chinese General Hsueh Yo said this week that Japan had 32 divisions on the Siberian border ready for a crack at Soviet Russia-if Adolf Hitler weakened Russia enough. By way of preparation for war, Japan sent three vessels to the U.S. to take its nationals back home. But even high Japanese Army officers were not too happy about the prospect. Commenting on Japan's present predicament, Colonel Kikujiro Okada of the War Ministry said: "We cannot just die off, smothering in an iron bucket clamped over our head, and at the same time we cannot remove the bucket...
...until after the game that Penn rooters nearly killed the announcer as they told him that they were really depicting the Liberty Bell with a crack down the middle, and the "mountain range" was actually the bandmaster in a raccoon coat...
...Hitler's 25 crack divisions which were stationed there after the fall of France last spring are still there, and will not be shifted to the Russian front," he stated. "The impossibility of sending a British, or American Expeditionary Force, to France, is clearly seen by the fact that the British have not in their entire armed forces more than 25 or 30 divisions at the most...
...Mack Broderick rounded end for the first Kirkland score in the middle of the second period, and George Blanchard hammered through center for the conversion. Just a few minutes later, the Dormers fumbled on their own 35, and John Eberlo recovered. He then proceeded to crack the Dorm tackle for the second Deacon touchdown. The try for point failed. Although the injured Kirkland star, Al Matthis, was exberting them from the sidelines, the Dorm players nearly scored on the Deacons in the second half, when they roused themselves from their listless state and fought their way to the 20-yard...
...flashes of brilliance, but they were repulsed by the Puritans, while Winthrop never could get started, although solid Stan Durwood powered his way through the '45 line, and Bill Eustis tossed several neat passes. Even though Durwood put his head down and charged, the Yardling forward wall would not crack open, and yielded but a few yards each try. Durwood kicks and plows through the line on the offense, but moves up into the tackle spot on the defense, moving Walt Kennedy to the backer-up position...