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Word: cracks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this play to produce by far their best performance of either this or last summer. [This is admittedly no longer particularly relevant, but it may give you some sort of standard of comparison. Besides, it's still true.] The Players, in fact, seem to enjoy themselves extravagantly; they crack their dreary jokes with every sign of glee; manipulate a formidable number of accents and dialects with surprising confidence; and don't even slow down in the middle of the dialogue's horrible stretches of Moorish waste. They are themselves as funny as their play is tiresome...

Author: By Anthony Hiss, | Title: Captain Brassbound's Conversion | 10/4/1962 | See Source »

...elects to retrieve it from the fullback's stomach, he can either attempt to crack the line himself, or drop back for a pass. Bassett, who has the agility to spin from tackler's grasp, does well on the "keeper...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yovicsin to Rely on Potent Running Attack | 9/29/1962 | See Source »

...more sociable," he says. "Girls were getting fed up with sitting on the back of a motorbike." Two years after he learned to drive, he thought it might be a lark to try out a racing car, went to a race driving school and plunked down $2.80 for a crack at a Formula 3 Cooper. Four laps at 80 m.p.h., and Hill, as he tells it, was saying to himself: "I must look into this." He worked as a mechanic for no pay. living "on the dole" in his zeal to drive. He tried the Lotus factory, again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Other Hill | 9/28/1962 | See Source »

...send thousands of comrades to their deaths." He adds coolly: "Some were killed by the French, others by internal strife." ∙ In 1960 Boumedienne was given the task of "forming a national army" in the security of training camps in Morocco and Tunisia. He carefully built and husbanded a crack fighting force equipped with Communist-bloc weapons and indoctrinated with Marxist ideas. "It's the best group that ever was," he brags. He kept his units in fighting trim with diversionary attacks on the French army's fortified defense lines across the border, but his troops took...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: SOLDIER IN WAITING | 9/14/1962 | See Source »

...silver and is also a big hoarder of the metal. Last week the Mexicans, acting to hold the price at $1.13, were cautiously selling from their reserves. They were fearful that if the price went much higher, Red China might start dumping its reputedly large hoard and thereby crack the market...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Commodities: Shine on Silver | 9/14/1962 | See Source »

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