Word: crackly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Merkle played on in the big leagues for 18 years-with the Giants, the Dodgers, the Yankees, and even the hated Cubs. A crack first baseman, he was a hustler in the field and had a sharp eye at the plate. Even in those days of the dead ball, he often hit close to .300. But until the day he died-in Daytona Beach, Fla. last week at 67-Frederick Charles Merkle never escaped the memory of that coincidence of time, place and official fickleness that came to be called "Merkle's bonehead play...
...native troops have written a proud record for gallantry and their devotion to France. The dashing Spahis helped liberate Paris. The Tirailleurs Algeriens (the troops in the small cement fortress) fought at Monte Cassino and in Indo-China. Barefooted, pillaging Moroccan Goumiers were General Augustin Guillaume's crack force in Italy. Altogether, 100,000 of France's 400,000 troops in North Africa are Moslems. Said a French lieutenant: "This is their country, and the rebels are their countrymen. How can we trust them? All we can do is pack them tight with French officers and hope...
Fire officials said that sparks from the fourth floor fireplace caused the fire. For some time, the sparks had been falling into a crack in the floor near the fire-place. They landed on the huge wooden beam which constitutes the main support of the building's upper reaches...
...turn of the century, when his old friend Ban Johnson decided to take a crack at the majors, Connie gladly took on the job of organizing a competitor for the Philadelphia Nationals. Ruthlessly raiding the opposition, Connie signed up such great stars as Nap Lajoie and Lave Cross. By 1902 he had an American League pennant contender in the Philadelphia Athletics. Then the Pennsylvania Supreme Court barred all the league jumpers from playing for him. Connie was probably the only man who did not believe the A's were through. He remembered a hard-drinking, eccentric southpaw pitcher named...
...great a leap over its F-86 Sabrejet of Korean war fame as the Sabre itself was over World War II's P-51 Mustang. Long and lethal-looking with 45° swept-back wings, the F-100 is the first operational fighter-and fighter bomber-to crack the sound barrier in level flight, broke the official world's record by flying 822 m.p.h. last year. Even then it was under wraps; estimates are that it can top 1,000 m.p.h. with its Pratt & Whitney J57 engine and afterburner going full blast...