Word: cracks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Having learned from observing the Chicago debacle that cracks who enjoy brutality write most of those letters applauding police force while civilized men go on being civilized, I feel I must this time forward a crack letter from the side of civilization...
Finally, the Crimson went into the race too confident that Penn's sophomore rowers would crack under the strain of a tight contest. "We felt that if we could keep it close until the final sprint," Harvard cox Tom tiffany said, "then they would rattle...
When branches crack like cannon in the cold...
Even with the nucleus of its crack distance squad in Philadelphia, the undefeated Crimson had little trouble its third victory of the season. Tim McCloone filled in admirably in the mile and two-mile runs, winning both, in addition to finishing second in the 880-yard...
...minor decoration of the original volume, unhappily left out in the re-edition, were Auden's hit-or-miss photographs. Its principal treasure was and is his long poem, Letter to Lord Byron. Few poets since Byron have tried to crack the great romantic's seven-foot whip, and only Auden among Englishmen has succeeded, as here...