Word: crackly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bluntly: "Democracy requires breeding. Pakistan is not ripe for democracy. These illiterate peasants certainly know less about running a country than I do." Mirza joined India's raj, or ruling class, when the British sent him to Sandhurst military college in 1918. There he got to be a crack rifle shot and earned his cricket "blue."; Gazetted an officer in the British army, he fought with the Cameronians (2nd Scottish Rifles) at Kohat in 1921 and with the 17th Poona Horse in Waziristan in 1924. He was Britain's top policeman in the Khyber Pass area...
...Swaps, the gallant California colt that upset Nashua in the Kentucky Derby, will get another crack at the Eastern champion. Running over the Derby distance (1¼ miles) and carrying Derby weight (126 Ibs.), the two thoroughbreds will meet in a match race at Chicago's Washington Park on August...
Died. Rear Admiral Apollo Soucek, 58, onetime (1953-55) chief of the Navy Bureau of Aeronautics, crack Navy test pilot and onetime holder of altitude records for sea-(38,560 ft. in 1929) and landplanes (43,166 ft. in 1930); of a heart attack in his sleep. Annapolisman Soucek, member of a famed Navy flying team (brother Zeus is a retired lieutenant commander turned aircraft-industry executive), was air officer of the carrier Hornet when it launched the Doolittle B-25 raid on Tokyo. in 1942, later commanded Task Force 77 in Korean waters...
...friends . . . say Davy Crockett is a big fake because the Liberty Bell is still cracked. Maybe Davy didn't patch up the crack like the song says. I wish you would tell me if Davy was a real man or was he just a nobody? I think he was a good American pioneer hero the way I would like to be, but if he didn't do what he says he did, maybe I don't want to be like...
...TIME reassures Reader Wentworth that Davy Crockett was as real as Walt Disney is, regrets, however, that there is no historical evidence to support the song's claim. That crack appeared a year after Davy last visited Philadelphia...