Word: crackings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like all TIME stories, the completed cover went to a senior editor (in this case Otto Fuerbringer), then to Managing Editor T. S. Matthews, for editing. As usual, our researchers had the last crack at it-to see that the facts were all straight. The story finally went to press early Tuesday morning, April...
...ornately carved dark wood desk in Lima's graceful Presidential Palace, President José Luis Bustamante pored over a plan. It had been drawn up, at his request, by crack U.S. petroleum engineer Arthur Curtice. The plan was to throw Peru's important oil reserves open to foreign exploitation...
...outside Augusta, Ga., built by and for Bobby Jones, had so much botanical beauty about that each hole had a flowery name (Flowering Peach, Yellow Jasmine, Spanish Dagger, Azalea). Bobby Jones, in semiretirement, played his one tournament a year there against masters and past masters only. This time 50 crack golfers were there-and Bobby, now 44, was back...
Tsunami follow any submarine earthquake which causes a fissure or crack in the earth's crust. When a part of the ocean bottom drops away or when there is an underwater landslide, water surges in from all sides to fill the void...
Miss Bowen's touch is not always sure. When it is, it is as light as fine porcelain, as sudden as the crack of a whip...