Word: crackly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...since the U.S.'s redheaded Don Budge turned the trick in 1938 had any man run out the Wimbledon championship without losing a set. Now, if he can win back his U.S. title, Tony is a cinch for a crack at the pros...
Better Form. Whatever happened next, unheralded Vancouver had won a moral victory. The Canadians could hardly have expected to keep up their winning ways when they took on the University of Pennsylvania's crack eight in the finals. Still, they managed to make a race of it. The Quakers had to put all their power into a last-stretch sprint to finish a third of a length in front...
Similar letters, postmarked from Siam, also reached Malay and Chinese political leaders, asking for a "round table conference" in the jungle. Said Lieut. General Sir Geoffrey Bourne, director of the Operations Committee, last week: "This is the first really noticeable crack in the Malayan Communist Party." To the 35,000 police and 172,000 home guards, it seemed a vindication of long and dangerous duty. In the last four years they have reduced the number of terrorist incidents from a monthly total of 606 to 66, the number of terrorists at large from...
...under Shakespeare's name almost immediately. Venus and Adonis, registered anonymously six weeks before Marlowe's murder, was published four months after his "death." Calling it "the first heir of my invention" was just Marlowe's cute way of saying that V. & A. was his first crack at being...
...commonplace, but in him Kramer has fashioned a figure of unheroic reality, the moral goldbrick constantly leaning against war's back door. We Shall March Again reaches a telling climax as the spokes fall out of the German war machine. Fuzzy-cheeked youngsters try to hold positions that crack divisions could not defend, commanders cannot reach the Führer because he is dillydallying at his own birthday party. But these vivid vignettes cannot quite redeem the novel's major flaw-that its men whine louder than its bullets...