Word: crackings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tenth day Major General Graves B. Erskine's hell-for-leather 3rd Division recovered from its long stymie around Motoyama Airfield No. 2, finally broke through for a 1,000-yd. gain straight up the middle of Iwo Jima. Here it seemed that the Japs might crack wide open. But the Jap flanks held and they tightened their grip on the craggy ravines. Instead of falling apart, the Japs fought more fanatically than ever and postponed their downfall...
Ultimate goal of the towering, touseledhaired Freshman is naturally a crack at the Harvard shot-put record, (50 feet), set back in 1940 by Mikkola-trained Howard Mendel '40, at the IC4A Championships in Harvard Stadium. And after that, there may be even greener pastures. Meanwhile, Mikkola nods his head, thinking at the same time how badly he's going to miss those much-needed shot-put points next spring. "He'll be a good man when he comes back," Jaako smiles...
...campaign to get G.I.s to wear their helmets straight, Lee began stopping men in the street and asking: "Is my helmet on straight?" Told respectfully that it was, the General would crack back: "Well, yours isn't." This had the desired effect until Lee ran into one officer who answered: "No sir, your helmet isn't quite straight. Move it a little over this way-no, that way-no, that's wrong too." Word of the tactic got around; the General had to abandon his campaign...
...Wang had offered what he called "important concessions." They had been formulated by himself and T. V. Soong, Acting President of the Executive Yuan and the Central Government's crack trouble shooter. To meet Yenan's demand for a democratic coalition government, Chungking was ready to give the Communists legal status and minority posts in the National Defense Council and Executive Yuan. To meet Yenan's demand for an all-party constitutional convention, Chungking offered to convoke an all-party meeting to consider "military and political unification pending a national congress." But when Chungking asked Yenan...
...Rhine. That threat may be a diversionary help to Simpson. Allied air power is already helping him, and the grueling strain imposed by the Russians is helping most of all. If Eisenhower and Montgomery have made his army their chosen instrument, he may be the man who will finally crack the German armies in the west...