Word: crackings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Even an ostensibly harmless action like the choice of Beirut, Lebanon, for next year's UNESCO conference, was an occasion of friction. Polish Delegate Jan Drohojowski, who had walked in & out of the conference in a constant huff, saw a last-minute chance for what he considered a crack at the U.S. He said he hoped that next year the delegates, "especially when they visit the neighboring Holy Land, will obey the Ten Commandments and not bow down to the Golden Calf...
Embryonic authors with a yen for contests have been offered their second crack at cash awards in as many days. Announcement of four $25 prizes by Radcliffe's "Signature" follows close upon yesterday's establishment of an annual prize for the best published undergraduate work...
While the "School for Communism" theme dominates their interpretation of the University, Southerners also firmly believe that every student is backed by a huge parental fortune. The combination of these two ideas then leads directly to the supposition that Harvard men are either "crack-pots" or misled idealists. What sensible man with money would want anything but capitalism...
...been going on in Cleverly, Dudley, and other such outlying districts. Using this line of reasoning, there remain but 40 House room places to be divided up among the 200 commuters and the several hundred outcasts in the dormitories. And, among these, men with prior claims will have first crack at the limited room supply, subject of course to the discretion of the Masters...
...plane pilot who has had a crackup needs a cooling-off period; if he takes off promptly on another flight, he is very likely to crack up again. That unnerving news was reported in the Journal of Aviation Medicine by an A.A.F. medical safety officer, Dr. Daniel Horn, who has been looking at the statistics on Army pilots...