Word: crackings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Today," he said, "I took my vice consul, and my driver, and came there. I found her in the kitchen . . . Came a few men and took her hand and tried to pull her . . . Three men began to crack the car and damage it. But she still cried, 'Take me home! Take me home!' White Russian bandits, few big men, began to throw some stones. But we got her in the car and we came here...
...Charles, waving his glasses in the air and pointing them towards Vishinsky, replied with icy indignation: "I will not jump at the crack of Mr. Vishinsky's whip . . . But I have been here three days listening to Mr. Vishinsky and I wonder who at this table is the cook...
...Cash, however, is not the chauffeurs' only reward: women of all ages go overboard for the midget sport. They keep scrapbooks, write fan letters, pester drivers for autographs, send them gifts of helmets, goggles, gloves. Once at Danbury, Conn., two elderly ladies bustled down from the grandstand, thumped crack Chauffeur Ted Tappett on the head with their handbags because he had beaten their favorite...
Says Group Therapist Dr. Joseph Abrahams, taking a crack at carpet weaving and other traditional therapeutic practices: "What they're trying to do is to reach back toward society . . . The object is for them to learn to live with people, not with rugs...
...Karajan had the help of two crack stage directors, Hans Caspar Nehar and Oskar Fritz Schuh, who had studied under Reinhardt in Berlin. They gave the production two notable Reinhardt touches. After Eurydice's funeral, the mountain wall which towers up behind the stage came alive with song; a chorus of 65 demons had been strung along its side. In the following scene, in which Orpheus arrives in Elysium, the theater's canvas roof was rolled back, revealing a starlit summer...