Word: crackings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Commodore. The boss of this crack crew is a ruddy, restive 50-year-old with twinkling china-blue eyes and eloquent white brows, who is more at home in a diving suit or on a burning deck than behind his Washington desk. No Annapolis man, Commodore Sullivan studied architecture at M.I.T., entered the Navy in World War I and stayed...
...CRACK-UP-F. Scott Fitzgerald-New Directions...
...permanent minority. Said Jinnah: "We cannot accept the Congress party's right to choose the Moslem ministers either on principle or on the facts before us." (The Moslem League claims to represent 99% of India's Moslems). But he left the door to reconciliation open a tiny crack; he hoped that if the Wavell Plan was "fully formulated," it would offer sufficient security "for the Moslem nation we represent" to permit acceptance. At week's end, Jinnah proposed that the Wavell Plan be dropped, that Congress and the League negotiate directly over a new government...
Harry Truman had thus dispatched a crack team to what might well be the most important new listening post in Europe (see INTERNATIONAL). Laurence Steinhardt is a lawyer, economist and author. As ambassador to Russia (193941), he went through the blitz in Moscow, signed the first Lend-Lease agreement with the Russians. He likes them and they like him. In Washington, he is rated as a top-drawer U.S. diplomat...
...Bell for Adano (20th Century-Fox) has a crack in it. Thanks to Hollywood's passionate desire to please practically everybody, this third telling of John Hersey's story fails to achieve the honest anger of the novel. It also lacks the resourcefulness and verisimilitude of the play...