Word: crackings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...imaginations of people. . . ." Said a disappointed London clerk: "I rather imagined Nelson's hat falling off in Trafalgar Square." Japan was hardly more interested. Said Mrs. Kiku Mori, a Tokyo housewife: "We Japanese women do not like to think of these things." In Shanghai's bars the crack-of-the-week was: "The Russians will probably get the bomb on the Shanghai black market...
Then, too, someone else said we had four traffic lights . . . two more lights than we had autos! . . . Fred Allen made a crack about the tall grass that was flourishing in front of the Regent Theater...
There would be speeches, flag-raising, planes in the morning sky, and the distant echoes of 21-gun salutes. Crack troops of the battle-seasoned Philippine Army of 40,000, which the U.S. returned to Philippine command June 30-after presenting it with $50 million worth of arms and equipment-would lead the big parade. On the ship-shaped platform, resolutely pointing to the future, General Douglas MacArthur, who had promised to return and did, would speak. Silver-haired Paul McNutt, the retiring U.S. High Commissioner and the first U.S. Ambassador to the Philippine Republic, would read the formal proclamation...
...Wilfrid and his fellow missionaries had two tough nuts to crack: 1). find some way of making good the $750 million credit, now frozen in Britain, that Argentina built up with wartime food shipments; 2) get a return on their own $1½ billion investment in Argentina...
Gunboats prowled along the Arakan coast and up the muddy Irrawaddy. Mechanized units rumbled over Burma's uneven dirt roads. At key airdromes R.A.F. transports stood ready to fly crack combat units where they were needed. Burma's garrison of about 50,000 British and Indian troops was three times prewar size and growing...