Word: crackings
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...leave chaos behind. Some 2,000 airborne Chinese Government troops, aided by 5,000 local auxiliaries, were inside the city. Outside was a Chinese Communist siege army, 60,000 to 70,000 strong. Slogging up from the south to relieve their beleaguered comrades was the Government's crack, U.S.-trained First Army. At Kaiyuan, a rail stop 115 miles away, the 40,000 regulars broke through Communist lines in the first serious battle between China's factions for control of Manchuria...
With a British subsidy to help, Abdullah had found life in Trans-Jordan tolerable enough. He rises at crack of dawn each day and at 7 o'clock drives in his lemon-colored limousine to an office in the center of Amman. There for two hours he works. Then he returns to his gaudy palace on one of Amman's five hilltops and reads Arabic poetry. After a hearty lunch (favorite dish: chicken pilaf) he attends to more official business. More often he withdraws to a black Bedouin tent in the backyard of his palace, to receive...
Boston's multitudinous, intensely parochial Roman Catholics wear their faith on their sleeves, reach for brickbats and shillelaghs at the slightest hint of criticism. But last week, after a telling blast against Boston Catholicism, they scarcely knew what head to crack: the blast had been loosed in the Commonweal, a Catholic weekly. It was signed "Katherine Loughlin," a pseudonym protecting a middleaged, devout, Irish Catholic spinster, her family and a relative who is a priest...
...more of the 125,000 atom-bomb casualties at Hiroshima and Nagasaki than were first reported came from the explosion's X-ray-like radiations. This fact, which medicine has long suspected, was confirmed last week by Captain Shields Warren, crack pathologist of the U.S. Naval Technical Mission to Japan...
...ancient times a hollow rhino horn was supposed to be a poisonproof cup, would supposedly crack, if poison were poured into it. Nonbeliever Charles II disproved this...