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Word: crackly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Junior Bill Boone and sophomore Joe Scornavacchi round out the squad, but they will not have a chance to crack the top seven until practice resumes after spring break...

Author: By Liz Resnick, | Title: Golfers Driving Toward Ivy League Crown | 3/12/1991 | See Source »

...movie stars Wesley Snipes as a flashy and ruthless crack dealer. Rap artist Ice-T, Judd Nelson and director Mario Van Peebles play police officers out to destroy his drug empire. The drug dealer is eventually brought to justice, but is not punished. Instead, a citizen takes the law into his own hands...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: New Movie Sparks Violence | 3/12/1991 | See Source »

Some of this information is collected by targeting specific types of Iraqi soldiers who are most likely to have the kind of knowledge that the allies need. U.S. Rangers and members of Britain's crack Special Air Service have made forays deep into Iraqi territory with "shopping lists" -- engineers or artillery officers, for example, who have special information about enemy plans and operations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Prisoners: The Fruits of Interrogation | 3/4/1991 | See Source »

...withdraws completely from Kuwait. The gulf states and Saudi Arabia must find better ways of defending themselves than they had before Aug. 2. One possibility is that they will offer Egypt financial inducements to remain in the region as a deterrent force. Cairo sent two of its crack armored divisions to Saudi Arabia and does not expect them back in the foreseeable future...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Consequences: What If Saddam Pulls Out? | 2/25/1991 | See Source »

...pessimistic, view of what is to come. The initial uncontested air raids and gee-whiz video glimpses of bombing turned out to be less decisive than they seemed in the first flush of euphoria, and the dream of immediate surrender has deteriorated into occasional fears that nothing will crack Saddam Hussein's will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Perceptions: Sorting Out the Mixed Signals | 2/18/1991 | See Source »

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