Word: crackings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Even as Stenia spoke, the crack of gunfire could be heard on the bridge. It attracted little attention; political murder was almost a commonplace in Poland. A complex, undeclared, ideological civil war was raging under the shadow of the Red Army's continuing occupation of the country it had liberated. Seven of prewar Poland's 35 millions had died in World War II; life had become so cheap that the struggle for Poland could scarcely be confined to the ballot...
Captain Eddie Rickenbacker, who has seldom shunned the spectacular, made an ear-jarring proposal last week. He suggested dropping an atomic bomb to crack the more than 1,800-ft.-thick Antarctic polar icecap. Thus, the U.S. might gain access to the copper, iron, gold, coal and other minerals reported hidden below...
With Lou Decsi's 23 tallies setting the pace, Coach Stahl's crack five extended its new winning streak to three in humbling the hapless Worcester Poly quintet by a score of 68 to 47 Wednesday evening before a crowd of 400 at the Indoor Athletic Building. The Jayvees made it a doubleheader as they rolled to a 54 to 34 win over the Lowell Textile School...
...Marianas swimmers-forced to make a two-mile swim ashore after a plane crash in which six of them were killed-came in a bad last behind the crack Philippines squad (60 points), Hawaii (54) and the Japanese Area...
Divorced. By Vera Zorina, 29 (German-born Eva Brigitta Hartwig), whom Hollywood and a beautiful body have made the poor man's ballerina: George Balanchine (real name: Georgei Melitonovitch Balanchivadze), 42, crack choreographer whose fine Russian hand helped arouse Broadway's current balletomania; after seven years of marriage, no children; in Reno...