Word: crackly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Connors, short, stocky 165-pound wrestler from Roxbury Latin, gets second crack at the position left open by Don Louria's graduation when the Crimson makes its third road trip of the season to Brown one week from today...
Lawyer George Crockett Jr. was on his feet. Exclaimed Medina: "So we're going to have each one of you take a crack at me. Now you see your chance to follow up with a little more harassment." Crockett started to protest. Medina shut him up. An exasperated Justice had had a little more than it could bear. Waving his hands and saying "Woosh," Medina dismissed Witness Marcantonio and adjourned court for the weekend...
...Washington's snowy Cascade Mountains last week, 14 crack ski jumpers mounted to the top of the runway at Olympian Hill to try for the Seattle Ski Club tournament championship. One by one they plummeted down the slide, took off into the cold air in the most spectacular sight known to sport. A couple of them landed as much as 285 feet down the slope. When it came his turn, slender, nervous Sverre Kongsgaard of Norway eyed the crowd of 4,000 far below. Then he shoved...
Switzer, who has the best physical equipment on the squad, has worked competently at both center and guard. Redmond, a member of a crack Belmont High team last year, has turned out to be an effective offensive weapon. His shooting is accurate and if time improves his defensive play, weak at present, he should see more action...
Tevye the dairyman was really a simple soul. He lived quietly in a Russian village during the early days of the century, when Czarism was cracking and the old Jewish communal life had begun to crack, too. All he wanted from life was a chance to sell his butter and cheese, an occasional glance into the Old Testament or the Talmud, and some reliable husbands for his sprouting daughters. "The Lord," he sarcastically remarked, "wanted to be good to Tevye, so He blessed him with seven female children ... all of them good-looking and charming . . . like young pine trees...