Word: crackly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Santa Fe, General Pat Hurley, rambunctious ex-Ambassador to China, asked his friends to dissolve New Mexico's 19 "Hurley-for-President" Clubs, decided to take another crack at the Senate instead. Edged out last time by Democrat Dennis Chavez, Republican Hurley this time would take on shrewd Carl Hatch...
Then Stassen turned his attention to Tom Dewey, who so far has even declined to admit that he is a candidate. Stassen had already taken one crack at Dewey. "There is nothing in America's political history," he had said, "to recommend an evasive policy, followed at an eleventh hour by a 'me too' answer...
...sleeve in his choice of a successor for Bradley. The man he named to head the Veterans Administration was Carl R. Gray Jr., 58, hearty, joke-loving vice president of the Chicago & North Western Railway Co. Railroader Gray, whose late father was president of the Union Pacific, is a crack organizer who, as a red-tape-hating general in World War II, won the high respect of both Eisenhower and Omar Bradley for his ability to push rail lines into one side of a European town almost before German forces could retreat out the other...
There are two crack halfbacks on Michigan's unbeaten team, which ran wild last week against Wisconsin (40 to 6) to win the Big Nine Championship and a ticket to the Rose Bowl. Bump Elliott is good on both offense and defense, but trigger-armed Bob Chappuis (TIME, Nov. 3), a specialist, is more spectacular. The only trouble with a backfield made up of the nation's four most touted backfield stars-Lujack, Conerly, Walker and Chappuis-is that there isn't a fullback among them...
VINCE MORAVEC (Captain): Last Saturday against Brown, the crowd saw an inspired Harvard team refuse to crack under the worst series of breaks that I have over seen in one game. That team is going to continue its winning ways because the spirit that was displayed last Saturday is riding higher than ever before this week...