Word: crackings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...program is clear-eyed, billiard-bald President Case, 44, who was dubbed by a Princeton classmate ('22) "the man whose forehead is most likely to recede." Slow-moving but thorough, "Ev" Case well knows that the success of the Core depends, more than anything else, on having a crack, wellrounded, flexible faculty. By his own steady example in his two and a half years at Colgate, he has impressed the value of these qualities on the older hands. For the future, he has a sharp eye out for men who consider college teaching an education as well...
...army waited while the materiel needed to crack these lines was assembled. Some days the front was almost quiet. Every night it was a roaring hell. Mortar shells, 600 and 1,000 pounders, smashed against the U.S. lines, 300 to the hour. Artillery fire drummed incessantly...
...north of the island the ist and 6th Marine Divisions, for once handling the easy end of the job, were clearing out scattered resistance and would soon be able to help in the south. The 27th Division (onetime New York National Guard) had come ashore for another crack at the Japs. The power was being built...
Powerful forces are ranged along the border. At peak strength the Russians probably had 800,000 trained troops, with modern armor and planes, in Siberia. The Japs' crack Kwantung army, which holds its mandate direct from the Emperor and runs Manchuria like a private estate, may have 1,000,000 men. The Red Army took many of its best Siberian divisions west to fight the Germans in the last three years; they may or may not have been replaced. On the other hand, six Jap divisions from Manchuria were chopped up in the Philippines...
...Jima, Okinawa, the fire raids on Tokyo and Nagoya rang in Jap ears like an overture to defeat. Moscow's denunciation of the Russo-Japanese neutrality pact sounded like the very crack of doom...