Word: crackings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...boss of Leningrad, he was acutely conscious of a danger he saw from nearby Finland. His fear led him into the one great boner of his career: he persuaded Stalin that the Finns would collapse easily. After the courageous Finnish defense ended that delusion, Stalin made a somber crack to Zhdanov: "So things are going normally on the Finnish front, huh? Well, when the Finns get to Bologoe [halfway between Moscow and Leningrad], let me know...
...record in the hear future, when they receive postcards addressed to them 23 years ago. Two residents of Grays Hall found the cards yesterday, stuck in the wall behind a studding. The missives, one announcing an invitation meeting of the Signet Society, had seemingly fallen through a crack in the mail box, when originally deposited there on March 2 and October 3, 1923. Benevolent undergraduates will forward the cards to the rightful owners...
...February, the Mikkolamen will get a crack at the Tiger and the Army mule in a triangular affair at West Point where the team will also elect a captain for the year...
...beat neighboring U.S.C. for a ticket to the Rose Bowl. Its most touted player, serious, studious Burr Baldwin, perhaps the best end in the country, is so good that he has an ex-All-American (Phil Tinsley, formerly of Georgia Tech) as an understudy. Coach Bert LaBrucherie, who coached crack teams at Los Angeles High School for 16 years before he got his big chance with the Bruins last year, feels that ex-G.I.s will not swallow the old get-out-there-&-fight-for-dear-old-Siwash line. Instead, in the dressing room before each game he plays...
Tracked Down. The Army uncovered more than 2,400,000 psychoneurotics (1,875,000 rejected in the draft, 600,000 discharged after induction). Four-fifths of those discharged had cracked up under training-camp discipline before they saw any fighting. General Cooke found many a plain & fancy coward: at Massachusetts' Camp Edwards, where 2,800 reluctant soldiers facing shipment to battlefronts were imprisoned in a stockade, he discovered that, to avoid going, men threw away their false teeth, hid in coal bins, jumped off harbor boats, paid up to $1,000 to civilian doctors to tell them...