Word: crackups
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...some degree this tension pulls at all peoples. In the American case, both the progressive and conservative poles are stronger, and the tension between them is maintained without crackup through the extraordinary political and philosophical character which the revolutionary colonists gave to the U.S. in its painful years of birth. The Founding Fathers knew or sensed that they were embarking on an epic journey. With a passion for history and political principles unequaled in any group of leaders before or since, they ransacked the political possessions of Western civilization beginning with Greece & Rome-and packed their bags with minute purpose...
...patrol commander himself. At a critical moment on the Anzio beachhead he ordered every man available-sappers, cooks, clerks-into the firing line. "He acted like a red-hot poker," says one of his officers. "He always impressed you as a man who was inevitably heading for a tremendous crackup," says another...
Defending Champion Thomas won the race at an average speed of 63 m.p.h., with Fonty Flock second. Thomas earned 200 points for winning, but Tim Flock, before his crackup, had earned enough starting and lap points to edge Thomas for the national title...
...five months). He made a couple of fancy killings importing machinery from the U.S. and olive trees from Portugal. He took to trading in diamonds, speculating in real estate. Toward the end, he began hinting he had a "big backer" who could always find millions for him. Yet the crackup, when it came, caught Rio by surprise. Felipetas in hand, creditors rushed frantically to Albuquerque's Rua Mexico headquarters. Officers, janitors, housewives, merchants swarmed into the empty offices...
...many early-season games got rained out that doubleheaders-to make up for the washouts-are cramming the big-league schedules. In the National League, the Brooklyn Dodgers were sagging a trifle (to .664), but showed no signs of repeating their disastrous 1951 crackup. If Brooklyn keeps winning at the present clip, the New York Giants, trailing by 7½ games, can take the pennant only by winning 38 times in 43 tries. In the American League, the New York Yankees kept on taking the tough ones, thus kept a 1½-game edge on the Cleveland Indians. The league...