Word: crackly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mediterranean sky dropped the transports, bringing 1,200 crack British paratroopers in battle readiness. They landed in Cyprus, not to reinforce that strife-torn island, but to be only a hop, skip and a jump away from Jordan, the Middle East's newest trouble spot...
...crisis in North Africa not only led France to pull out of Germany the troops pledged to NATO, but compelled it to send Frenchmen to put out the fire. Recently France pulled out some of her crack First Army regiments, replacing them with the first of some 2,000 Moroccan troops...
From his four crack forwards (Lewicki, Hergesheimer, Bathgate and Prentice) Watson announced that he expected a goal a week apiece-the equivalent of one every three games. From the other seven forwards he would settle for twelve goals each before the regular season ended...
...exhibition run, General Motors' 400-passenger Aerotrain streaked over the Pennsylvania Railroad from Washington to Philadelphia in two hours-as fast as the crack Congressional Limited. The same day, another Aerotrain rolled out of Chicago over the tracks of the New York Central and highballed 284 miles to Detroit in four hours, an hour better than the fastest passenger express. Even more impressive than its speed is the Aerotrain's low operating cost. For the Chicago-Detroit run, fuel cost only $18, about one-fourth the costs of a conventional^ train. G.M. engineers estimate that the Aerotrain...
...part was played by Cinemactress Eleanor Parker). Singer Farrell displayed all the instincts of a born vaudevillian. Says she: "When Lawrence drops to the stage with polio while singing the Liebestod, I sang with frogs in my throat because she wasn't feeling well, and then I cracked at the end when she falls down. Can I crack at will...