Word: crackings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...party reached a shallow ledge on the almost-vertical face of Dent du Geant. While the other three waited below, McNear continued up the face and hammered a thin piton--a metal spike commonly used by mountain-climbers for support--into a crack in the granite rock. Then he fastened his rope to the piton and continued up the wall...
Smoke Signal. Near Bari, Italy, Farmhand Donato Summa explained why he had flagged down the crack Rome-Bari train to speak to the engineer: he had been working in the fields for three hours without a smoke and needed a match...
...CRACK IN THE COLUMN (370 pp.] -George Weller-Random House...
...foreign correspondent of the Chicago Daily News, George Weller watched the British retreat from Greece in 1941. When the British returned in 1944, so did Weller; like many another correspondent, he developed a deep affection for the country. The Crack in the Column, an admirably objective novel beginning in the days of the Nazi occupation and ending with the outbreak of civil war, is the product of George Weller's fondness for Greece and its hard-pressed people...
...however, need read The Crack in the Column as a political guidebook; it is enough that it skillfully portrays the tragedy of a nation, and offers a few memorably sketched figures in the foreground. It is not a simple story, but it is a good one. Greece has deeply affected George Weller-as he says of one of his characters, it has unfitted him for simplicity...