Word: crackings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...invited the village's ram-roast committee to the deer park of his 3,000-acre estate, let them shoot a buck. With that slight deviation to modern complexities, the village planned to carry on its ancient rite this week. But Kingsteigntonians were still rankled by the irreverent crack of a Communist M.P. during Rayner's plea. The Commie sneered that this was "one of those heathen customs the Conservative Party wants to retain...
...year later young Mr. Rosenberg was a specialist-and making $50 a week after school. By determined practice, he had become a crack stenographer. About the time Billy won the Manhattan school speed championship, John R. Gregg, whose shorthand system Billy used, gave him a job as a demonstrator. Soon Rose could take 280 words a minute, real champ form. When he quit high school in his third year, he was making as much as $200 a week from his shorthand...
When the big guns in the Crimson track arsenal swing into action this weekend at the IC4A championships in Philadelphia, it will be the last chance for five of them to crack existing Harvard records...
...brought to justice. Greenville County deputy sheriffs and city police jumped into action. In a few days, with a hand from the FBI, they rounded up 31 men, got signed statements from 26 of them admitting participation in the lynching. The State Attorney General assigned a crack prosecutor, Samuel Ruth Watt of Spartanburg, to the case. In March, a grand jury indicted all 31 of the men for the murder of Willie Earle...
Part of the fault was the Germans'. Part of it was a savage winter. Part of the fault was America's, which had fallen behind by about a week's supply in its deliveries of food. But the new crack and the panic in Germany pointed up the instability of. Western Democracy's whole front. Around the world the margin of economic safety was thin...