Word: cracks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Each morning the 35 fighter-bomber pilots of the Royal Laotian Air Force file solemnly into the office of their commanding general and remove their personal horseshoes from pegs on the wooden wall. Then the pilots trot out to their American-built T-28s for an other crack at the Ho Chi Minh trail...
N.F.L. types made no secret of their amusement. They dubbed the A.F.L. the "Kook League." And when sportswriters suggested a "world series" playoff between the champions of each league, they were referred to the historic crack of Elmer Layden, who served as N.F.L. commissioner during the formation of the ill-fated All-America Conference in the 1940s. "First," said Layden, "let them get a football...
Harvard's advantage is at the top of the ladder. Adams, Jose Gonzalez, Rick Sterne, and Todd Wilkinson definitely have the edge over Army. In lower matches, where there is a tendency for in-experienced players to crack under strange court conditions, the Crimson could have problems...
Amsterdam is not so much an advocate of more civil rights as he is a crack criminal lawyer seeking better protection of existing rights. The rights themselves have been won-from free expression in 1789 to equal voting in " 1965. And yet, he says, the American citizen may still be "arrested, jailed, fined under guise of bail and put to every risk and rancor of the criminal process if he expresses himself unpopularly." In the years ahead, Amsterdam intends to concentrate on making "the paper right a practical protection...
...rare enough for a rookie to crack the starting line-up of an N.F.L...