Word: rackingly
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...anybody believed the peace rumors that have circulated recently (TIME, Nov. 11), he knew better after what happened in Munich last week. The Royal Air Force made a raid on the city, somehow timed to coincide with Hitler's presence there, and somehow a rack of bombs aimed at the railroad station happened to overshoot its mark. Bombs splattered in Munich's streets. The world-wide broadcast of Hitler's speech was abruptly canceled...
Next, the leg is set in a "Griswold machine"-a 20th-century model of the rack. The pins are connected on both sides to a kind of caliper and the leg is gently stretched until the two broken ends snap into place. While a surgeon "reduces" the fracture, his assistant watches the bone through a fluoroscope to make sure the ends are fitted. The leg stays in the machine...
Dunster had the Commuters all tied up in knots all afternoon, kept them outside the thirty, and threatened to score numerous times, but with three periods gone the game was still tied up. It took Tom Broidrick's too to finally rack up three points and put the game on ice with a few minutes left in the game, as charges with a perfect boot from twenty-he stole the march on Dick Harlow's five yards...
Arthur Siegel of the Traveler: "I pick Army by one touchdown. I saw the Cadets play last week against Cornell and their team will be better this week. They have two fast backs in Jere Maupin and Don Thompson and should rack up a 13 to 7 victory...
...that called at the house where Dr. Westrick lived with his wife and children, looked up their owners, bit by bit pieced together Dr. Westrick's movements-and incidentally a lot of miscellaneous information about Dr. Westrick's guests. One day last week the Herald Tribune broke Rack's story. According to Sleuth Racusin, since May Dr. Westrick...