Word: crackings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...platform of Dugald station, a flag stop 14 miles east of Winnipeg, passengers from the Canadian National's crack transcontinental No. 4 stretched their legs. A bright moon shone on stocks of wheat in nearby fields. In eastbound No. 4's cab, Engineer J. R. Gibson was impatient to get going, for he was behind schedule. But he had to wait for a westbound special. It was 10:45 p.m., near the end of a peaceful Labor...
Hounded by State Street merchants, by the newspapers and by the electorate, Ed Kelly started all over again. This time he called in Phil Harrington, a crack city traction engineer, and asked him to help figure out a new plan. Harrington suggested the establishment of a Chicago Transit Authority which, with private capital, would buy up all the facilities and operate them as an independent agency...
...bullfighters, gathered in rings throughout Spain, mourned Manolete with the formal pomp which he loved, as a good bullfighter and a good Spaniard must. In Mexico City they remembered that when word of his death came, lightning had been flashing in the darkened sky. At that moment, the crack of balls and shouted bets in the pelota courts had died away, and the voice over the loudspeaker had intoned, "Se murió el mejor" (the best is dead...
...outer courts, prepping for a crack at next week's singles championship, were some 60 players-about 25 of them with foreign accents. England had sent Tony Mottram and Derrick Barton. France's Robert Abdesselam, Czechoslovakia's outstanding southpaw Jaroslav Drobny were there, along with India's entire Davis Cup team (Misra, Mohan & Mehta) and Sweden's and Belgium's best...
...sort of defense treaty the U.S. wants was outlined by Secretary Marshall on the conference's first day. If one of the 21 American republics were attacked, all of them would go into a huddle, and if two-thirds of them agreed to crack down on the aggressor, all 21 would have to go along. Nobody could be neutral. On the other hand, only those that wanted to need start shooting. For those unable or unwilling to go that far there would be lesser steps-breaking off diplomatic relations, starting an economic blockade, for instance...