Word: crackings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Republicans . . . voted themselves a cut in taxes and voted you a cut in freedom. The 80th Republican Congress failed to crack down on prices. But it cracked down on labor all right." He said there was "an exceedingly real possibility" of a boom-and-bust cycle if the Republicans came into power; "you can already see signs of it. The boom is on for them and the bust has begun...
...Communists declared, had been started not by the Nazis, but "by the infamous instigation of the German people by the golden bedbugs of Wall Street." The accusations that whirled back & forth between the victors who had only recently tried Germans as war criminals induced a German humorist to crack: "It is almost enough to make one feel insecure in one's guilt complex...
Television advertisers are busily knocking together a strange new world. It is a world in which oranges crack jokes, penguins smoke cigarettes, a Botany Mills lamb gambols about in a necktie, razor blades change themselves, and advertising symbols (e.g., Ballantine's three rings) appear and disappear with the ease of Cheshire cats...
...began his big-league career as a crack southpaw pitcher for the Boston Red Sox. But he was also a slugger without peer, and when he clouted most of his record 714 home runs, he wore a New York Yankee uniform, played the outfield. Son of a Baltimore saloonkeeper, he was brought up in a Baltimore school for delinquents, and he never quite grew up. In his first years in baseball, he scoffed at training rules, took his drinks where he found them, abused umpires, once chased up into the stands after an abusive...
...Discount Corp. reported that monthly payments "now run almost as high as two weeks' pay for the average factory worker." Gene Pratt, vice president of Detroit's Contract Purchase Corp., figured that 70% of potential new-car customers had been "absolutely" frozen out, thought the market could crack overnight...