Word: crackings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...World War I veteran, Wall Street businessman, and articulate advocate of air power, had also served five years. He reorganized and even achieved partial autonomy for the A.A.F. He has been the Air Forces' most successful salesman, both in brass-hat circles and Congressional committee rooms, and a crack administrater of A.A.F. into the bargain...
...armed services can dip into a reservoir of trained men. Last week the Army and Navy underwent their biggest command shifts without audible clashing of gears. Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King finally resigned as Chief of Naval Operations-the job he had taken in December 1941, with the crack: "When they get into trouble they always send for the sons of bitches." Now his filial job was done. His successor: mild, earnest Chester Nimitz...
...strategic position, as the key to a strong China. The Central Government was still negotiating with the Communists for an overall settlement ; if that failed, Chungking would fight a major civil war to re-establish Chinese sovereignty over Manchuria. In the long run, the Central Government armies, especially the crack U.S.-trained divisions, looked like more than a match for the Red guerrillas...
...years Indiana was the champion low hurdle for Midwestern powerhouses. The University had the smallest male enrollment in the conference, and home games in Bloomington drew so poorly that the team played mostly on the road. First crack out of the box this season, the worm turned with a 13-7 upset of Michigan. Last week the Hoosiers gave Pittsburgh a 19-0 mud bath. This week, if they get by their traditional "Old Oaken Bucket" set-to with Purdue, the unbeaten but once-tied (by Northwestern) Hoosiers will wrap up their first Big Ten (now nine) crown...
Winston Churchill's waggery followed Clement Attlee to Washington (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). The Churchill crack: "Attlee is a sheep in sheep's clothing...