Word: crackly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...overall direction of Chiang's chief of staff, General Ku Chu-tung. The Red commander struck first, and brilliantly. He picked off a Nationalist brigade, and decimated an entire Nationalist division, the newly formed 75th. Then the Reds looped a steel ring around four divisions of the crack Nationalist Fifth Army, guardian of Nanking. Crowed the Communist radio: "The Fifth Army is being cut into pockets and annihilated...
...entertain people, give them something," Fred Allen cracked, in his disillusioned way. Vacationing on Cape Cod this week, Fred might well recall that crack: a giveaway program had belted Allen all the way down to No. 38 on the Hooperating, moved all the way up into the No. 2 spot itself...
Even in an air-cooled auditorium basketball seemed out of place in July. In Kansas City last week, the crack University of Kentucky team and the equally talented Phillips Oilers (which together make up the U.S. Olympic squad) tried...
...could drive away triumphantly when his day's work was done (he finished sixth). No such liberties were permitted last week at Muirfield, which Scots regard as hallowed ground. In the qualifying round he shot two 69s, to lead the field. The skeptics considered it a fluke. Some crack golfers had struggled in behind him. From the U.S. had come 13 talented men, including former Open Champion Lawson Little and Claude Harmon (winner of the recent Masters' Tournament...
...Smash. One thing is fairly certain: the "primary rays" are particles of some sort (coming from somewhere) that smack into the earth's atmosphere with enormous speed and energy. They hit and apparently crack up atmospheric atoms, scattering the fragments violently, like bullets smashing into a bag of marbles. The atomic debris cascades toward the earth, some of the pieces with enough energy to crack atoms on their own. Occasionally one of these "extensive showers" covers an area 1,000 meters wide. The total energy in a shower runs up to 10 18 (one billion billion) electron-volts...