Word: crackings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...long be alone in their shame. Canada is a conservative country, with a very small Communist movement. It took no imagination to visualize what kind of a Soviet network was operating in much larger nations, like the U.S. and Britain. One source, in Washington, said that the FBI could crack down at any moment on 1,500 irresponsible secret-peddlers in the U.S. Such a crackdown was probably not far away...
Drowned in the giggles was any thought of happy George Allen's qualifications for the RFC job. He had proved a great capacity to crack jokes about himself, a pleasant candor about his own ambitions and finances. He had demonstrated that a good many companies-most of whom find it convenient to be on good terms with Washington-considered him a useful man to have on the payroll. But there was no hint that any of his many previous employers had ever dreamed of making him board chairman of a corporation- much less of a $10½ billion empire...
Delighted German spectators watched a crack soccer team from Düsseldorf defeat the British 53rd Division's team. A German in the stands crowed triumphantly to a British soldier: "You don't know what this victory means to Düsseldorf. For the first time we have beaten you at your national game...
...would offer first-year courses in medicine and pharmacy in September. It was also making plans to teach dentistry, optometry, music, dramatics, physical education, possibly journalism. In noncultural fields it was soaring, too. The Thunderbird basketball team (sometimes called the "Blunder-thirds' ) had surprised everybody by trouncing some crack U.S. college teams...
Their partnership lasted 31 years, until Clapper's death in an airplane crash in the Pacific in February, 1944. They worked their way through the University of Kansas; even when they moved to Washington, and stooped, big-eyed Ray Clapper became first a crack U.P.man, then a Scripps-Howard columnist, they collaborated. Every morning, Olive sat on his bed while they criticized his efforts to "write it for the milkman in Omaha." After breakfast she would sit him down to make voluminous entries in his diary...