Word: crackings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Southern Californians were unconsoled when Jones said that he might enter one of Citation's crack stablemates-Free America-in Santa Anita's $100,000 Maturity Stakes. That would be like getting Lana Turner's sister on a date you thought you had with Lana...
Last week the Greek government, alarmed at the effect of this propaganda on troop morale, finally decided to crack down on those who provided ammunition for the rebel loudspeakers. To give bite to its bark, a special court-martial in Athens charged handsome Michael Chryssicopoulos (36), scion of one of Greece's wealthiest families, with draft dodging...
Follow That Nose. How does he get his news? Pearson's methods are essentially those of any crack reporter-with certain subtle refinements. "Good news," he says-using the term in its purely technical sense-"comes in two ways: 1) by accurate tips, diligently followed up; 2) by doping out a story for yourself, then confronting some knowing source with it to see if you're on the right track. Generally I just operate with a sense of smell: if something smells wrong, I go to work...
...fire. Employing its breakaway plays they scored five wishes in a row and when the half-time buzzer sounded they held a 35-26 lead. After the half, Northeastern steadily Granded its lead by firing shorts into the Basket from all over the court. The crimson, meanwhile, unable to crack the Northeastern defense, resorted without access to shots from the outside, and at close of the third period trailed...
...which I bring up not because the crack is funny, which it isn't but, because it gets at what seems to be the basic, ghastly faults in "Allegro"--faults that take a lot of the kick out of the show's occasional very brilliant scenes. These faults are, roughly, the righteousness of the plot and the resulting humorlessness of the Big Scenes. They are bad enough in themselves. What is worse, they give Richard Rodgers situations which require all the major songs to be so heavy and and serious that people leave the theater wishing there had been more...