Word: cracking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Meanwhile, even the official German radio had taken a clumsy crack at quotation spotting. Bellowed Nazi Broadcaster Hans Fritsche, apropos of His Majesty's address: "An unholy cause cannot be transformed into a holy one simply by disguising it behind a quotation from the Bible...
...Henry Latham Doherty, off to a business career at twelve as an office boy for the Columbus (Ohio) Gas Co., the world of the eighties was an oyster and he held the shucking knife. By the turn of the century he was a crack western public utility man, and by the time he moved into Manhattan at 35 to set up Henry L. Doherty & Co. (utilities investments) he was a millionaire and had feathered his chin with a goatish beard to impress Wall Streeters. The beard failed to work, and Mr. Doherty had to borrow money in Europe until Wall...
...TIME, Dec. 25)-across the North Atlantic, obscured by these events, and by winter fog and an efficient blanket of censorship, a large group of long, grey shapes proceeded methodically in eight days from Halifax, N. S. to a port in west Britain.* In that camouflaged convoy were such crack passenger liners as Aquitania, Batory, Empress of Britain. Guarding them was Britain's main Battle Fleet, for on this convoy no slightest chance could be taken...