Word: crackings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Moselle, upriver from Coblenz, Lieut. General George S. Patton's 5th and goth Divisions had carved out substantial bridgeheads on the south bank. Major General Hugh J. Gaffey's crack 4th Armored Division poured through, shot south into the Hunsrück plateau. Resistance was almost nil. At the narrow Simmer River, the tankmen found the bridges intact, pressed on to Bad Kreuz-nach, junction of three rail lines and four highways. The goth tagged along on Gaffey's left, taking mellow old Rhine towns -Boppard, St. Goar, Bingen-like buttons from a ripped-open shirt...
...night in October 1942, "Manila John" Basilone (his endless store of Philippine yarns had won him the nickname) lay wet, miserable and alert in his foxhole. He heard the sudden crack of bullets. The Japs were attacking...
Batista lost the election, but the Communists won a strategic advantage. With three seats in the Senate, they held the balance of power. Under their crack-voiced mulatto leader, Lázaro Peña, they were in a position, to put a demolition charge under the President whenever they chose to. Grau paid for their support with wage increases, other favors, of which the most dazzling was the Workers' Palace...
Smith hired the area's best horticulturists and floral designers right & left (despite protests of other growers, who claimed that he was underselling the market and charging off floral losses against newspaper profits), soon had a crack staff of 65. Among many Smith service features: a "memory service bureau," employing a pert blonde to call up husbands two days before wedding anniversaries...
...money came from an older brother, the late Edgar Addison Bancroft, crack corporation lawyer and onetime U.S. Ambassador to Japan (1924-25). It will be used to establish the Edgar A. and Frederic Bancroft Foundation at Columbia...