Word: crackly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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James Forrestal, perhaps too sensitive to the traditions and loyalties of the three armed services, had tried to win unity by conciliation and persuasion. In this he had largely failed. Louis Johnson had moved in like a combine advancing on a field of summer wheat. He set out "to crack a few heads together," and he did so by bold and brusque decisions. In his fourth week in office he ordered the Navy to scrap its biggest dreamboat, the $188 million supercarrier, United States, and ended naval aviation's dream of striking at the heart of any enemy with...
...time he graduated, Louis Johnson had been three-time president of the law school, vice president of the oldest university Y.M.C.A. in the nation, secretary-treasurer of the Civic Club. He was also a crack debater, and a good athlete (boxing and wrestling). To the despair of some classmates (and with the help of a photographic memory), he had also made top grades without even seeming...
Pert, pince-nezed Dorothy Leigh Sayers, 56, is best known to readers in the U.S. and Britain as a crack writer of whodunits (Busman's Honeymoon, Murder Must Advertise, etc.). But what really interests Anglican Sayers is religion. Two years ago she announced: "I have given up writing crime stories. Instead, I have engaged in a four-year task of translating Dante's Divine Comedy...
Home of the Brave. Hollywood's first crack at anti-Negro discrimination, delivered with the courage of its convictions (TIME...
...Crack the Whip. Foote has a good deal to say about Soviet spy-recruiting methods and the whip-cracking tactics of the Moscow chiefs. As valuable as the spies themselves, he says, are the party members and fellow travelers who pass on information, sometimes innocently, which the best of spies could never hope...