Word: crackly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Kutis the championship soccer team alone is worth the price, even though none of his Undertakers undertake. Best of the lot is Center Forward Bob Rooney, 27, a beat-pounding St. Louis cop. who was a crack high school football player and for five seasons a baseball farm hand for the Cardinals. Soccer, says Rooney, gives him the biggest boot: "It's the speed and the pretty pass work and the extra little amount of roughness. I'm talking about really topnotch teams, though. Most people in this country see sandlot games that just look like...
Late-arriving delegates brought alarming news. Some 10,000 people, demonstrating in the Liteiny Prospekt in support of the Constituent Assembly, had been dispersed by Red gunfire. Witnesses reported that dozens of bodies lay bloodily in the snow. We had hoped that two crack regiments, the Semyonov and the Preobrazhensky would act in defense of the Assembly. Now word came that they had decided to remain neutral; they would neither go into the streets against the demonstrators nor join with them. Like other regular army units, they believed that all that was at stake was a simple misunderstanding between...
...casinos of Havana rate as the hemisphere's most alluring and elegant. Says a dice man in the deep-carpeted gaming room of the Hotel Nacional: "We are getting bigger bets than Las Vegas. All the real big Eastern crapshooters are coming down here to take a crack at us." And for all the real big Eastern hoods, running Havana gambling looks to be this winter's richest bonanza. Last week Manhattan District Attorney Frank Hogan dropped a suggestion that a yearning to cut himself into Cuban casinos doomed Racketeer Albert Anastasia to his death last October...
...first I thought he was from Princeton, there were so many of them around that weekend. He held a pipe in his teeeth, had a Scotch in his hand, and was dressed like the incarnate ideal of Ivy Magazine. But squelching a Cliffie with a crack like that overcame my initial repugnance, so sidling over, I soon put in a friendly word for Bertrand Russell...
...raped at all (in examining this problem, Author Voelker is even more clinical than James Gould Cozzens was in By Love Possessed). To make things still tougher for Defense Attorney Biegler, the prosecuting attorney-who is also Biegler's rival in an imminent congressional election-brings in a crack assistant from the attorney general's staff at the state capital. To save his client, Biegler has only his own wits, the assistance of an able but often drunk colleague, and a secretary given depressingly to imitating the wisecracks in an Erie Stanley Gardner mystery...