Word: crackings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...appearance, cling jealously to fancy dress uniforms of blue, scarlet and gold, raise their sea soldiers in the spit-&-polish tradition. A pressing table and a board for polishing brass buttons are as much a part of Marine equipment as rifles and bayonets. Marines have never forgotten that their crack-shooting riflemen in the tops of the Bon Homme Richard helped John Paul Jones to glory against Britain's Serapis off Scotland's coast in 1779. Today the Marine Corps is the keenest rifle-shooting outfit in the world. On the walls of Tommy Holcomb's office...
...help being encouraged by the Sophomore strength on the squad. Carr lost five valuable regulars last year, and knew he would have to rely a great deal on the crack '43 team of last year. Well, he must be pretty well satisfied for they all have come up to expectations, especially Herskovits, Sawhill and Jack Calhoun. If Al Merck had returned to college there might have been no fullback problem. And according to Jimmy MacDonald, the Freshman coach, this year's crop of Yardlings are doing very well by themselves...
...They put the draft over beautifully and painlessly," he observed, "but now the novacaine is wearing off and opposition is developing. It is probable that after the election the government will crack down on this and all other opposition or criticism...
...Representative Charles Halleck; John Hollister of Cincinnati, ex-law partner of Senator Robert Taft; bumptious ex-Gagman Walter O'Keefe, drape-suited young Lawyer Oren Root Jr. Then Vincent Gengarelly, barber-valet-masseur; Willkie's press-relations man, quick-smiling, 30-year-old Lamoyne Jones, ex-crack police reporter of the New York Herald Tribune, who looks like a juvenile lead...
...Most observers expected the State-by-State Republican vote to be larger than it has been since 1928, although few expected the solid South to crack. Last week Southern-born George A. Sloan, former president of the Cotton-Textile Institute, wrote a letter to Southern editors and friends: "Let your inner conviction on the third term speak and vote for Wendell L. Willkie in the restoration of national unity and spirit...