Word: crackly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...surprised Bangkok diplomats that most of them heard of it at breakfast the morning after. Shortly before midnight Marshal Sarit's brand-new U.S. tanks and weapons carriers had taken up positions controlling Bangkok's key traffic arteries. Efficient little Thai infantrymen, troops of Sarit's crack 1st Division, set up mortar and machine-gun emplacements, and over the radio came the first of a series of orders from Sarit and the new government...
...California and Canada, but the favorites in the tournament were the Aurora, Ill. Sealmasters (ball bearings), the Raybestos (brake lining) Cardinals of Stratford, Conn., and the town-sponsored Clearwater Bombers, the defending champions. The reason for the choice was simple enough: each of the teams had a crack pitcher. Softball is a sport in which any manager in his right mind would trade four heavy-hitting sluggers for one big-time pitcher...
Such rugged academic programs attract crack high-school graduates to all six schools. "We discourage any student who just wants a roof over his head for four years," says Oberlin's President William E. Stevenson. Oberlin gets 75% of its students from outside Ohio, has been called the best coed college in the nation. Each spring, talent scouts from top graduate schools show up to recruit leading seniors. Says Stevenson: "If Oberlin recommends them, they get off to a fine start." Still, Oberlin's high standards have one built-in drawback: the students sometimes become smugly complacent about...
Lieut. Hillman Robbins Jr., 25, is a ground-bound Air Force desk jockey who suffers variously from low blood pressure, an allergy to early-morning reveille and an exasperating habit of lunging at his tee shots and turning his head on putts. A crack amateur golfer, Robbins gains a kind of circular compensation from his failings on the course: fouled-up shots beef up his blood pressure, his energy expands and his game improves accordingly...
...foreign nations. Most of the basic air agreements were negotiated between 1946 and 1948, when the U.S. was the only nation with the aircraft and the capital to operate overseas routes. Now that other nations can buy the planes and keep them flying, the U.S. must give them a crack at its own markets...