Word: cracks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Germans had made it into a colossal land battleship. A ring of heavy antiaircraft guns formed a perimeter around the refineries that circled the city; lighter flak guns were concealed in hay stacks and groves, mounted on factories, bridges, water towers and church steeples on the target approaches. Crack Luftwaffe squadrons, aided by Rumanian and Bulgarian air force units, gave Ploesti an aerial umbrella...
Coach Jack Barnaby plans to crack doubles teams of Sullivan Ripley, Adelman and sophomore Niederhoffer, and Martin and But John Vinton and Bob Inman, sophomores, may be substituted of the other pairs if the meet as expected...
...have better players than M.I.T. and more of them," observed coach Jack Barnaby. He plans to rest his crack doubles teams and to substitute less experienced players this afternoon to give them a chance to prove themselves in a relatively easy meet...
Those dauntless darlings of diamond, the Boston Red Sox, will open their 1962 campaign against the Cleveland Indians at Fenway Park this afternoon. About 15,000 are expected to be in the stands when the umpire calls "Play ball" and the spine-tingling crack of horsehide against tempered ash signals the start of another season. Actually, the Bronx Barons, the New York Yankees, are probably going to win again, but it will be fun deluding ourselves for awhile...
...Night. Marriage without love and life without meaning are examined with talent, intelligence and despair by Michelangelo Antonioni (L'Avventura), whose text might be from W. H. Auden: "The glacier knocks in the closet, / The desert sighs in the bed; / The crack in the teacup opens / A lane to the land of the dead...