Word: crackly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...strongest event on the squad is the mile relay, composed of Robertson, Wills, Anderson, and Wharton. In addition to defeating Yale and Princeton in the K. of C. and B.A.A. meets, the team recorded the second fastest time in the East, beaten only by the crack Villanova quarter...
...Crack Russian Skier Valentina Nabatenko broke her leg while schussing down Cortina's Tofana mountain...
...scrub palmetto of Cape Canaveral, Fla., the Redstone is a vast improvement over its ancestral V2, both in range, guidance and warhead. The Army is confident that after moderate changes it will reach to 1,500 miles. The Redstone is the reason why the Army has been given a crack at the IRBMs (Intermediate Range Ballistic Missiles), which have the same urgent priority as the ICBM. The Army intends to carry Redstone by air. Says Lieut. General James M. Gavin, head of Army Research and Development: "We want to be able to put it in cargo airplanes along with...
...succeeded thanks to his cat-quick reflexes and a natural athletic gift that makes him a success at almost any game he tries (he took a crack at soccer for the first time in his life as a Lehigh freshman, made the Lehigh varsity the next year). On the mat a wrestler is on his own. There are no teammates to pitch in, no one to call plays, no coach to take him out when he gets tired. Stop-watch-clicking scorers keep track of every move, referees award points on a complicated but precise system of scoring. During four...
...company's bonded indebtedness so that when the crash came the company was financially secure. In 1937 he broke with the antilabor, coal-and-iron police tradition of Founder Elbert Gary, became the first steelmaker to sign with John L. Lewis' C.I.O. According to legend, the crack in the ranks of steel came one day in Washington's Mayflower Hotel lobby, when handsome Mrs. Taylor spied Lewis' leonine head, bade her reluctant husband: "Myron, I want to meet that man ... so bring him over here." On retiring from active management, Taylor became a diplomatic troubleshooter...