Word: cracking
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...State spokesman whether Washington had any position on Sakharov, who has been subjected to a threat of arrest and possible trial. The cause: Sakharov's charge that the Soviet secret police may have touched off a blast in a Moscow subway so as to have an excuse to crack down on dissidents. The following day the department released a statement not only defending Sakharov as "an outspoken champion of human rights" but also warning Moscow that any attempt to "intimidate" him "will conflict with accepted international standards of human rights...
...tumor virus, is exceedingly low, though not zero. Second, evolutionary considerations provide an independent approach to the question. It seems exceedingly doubtful that our novel ability to introduce mammalian DNA into bacteria in the laboratory will create a truly novel class of organisms, for evolution has already had a crack at the problem...
Winding through narrow jungle roads, a platoon of Thailand's crack 1st Cavalry Battalion was caught last month in the bloodiest ambush yet staged by the country's Communist insurgents. Twenty-two of the unit's 26 men were quickly cut down in a fusillade of rocket grenades and heavy machine-gun fire. Seizing the platoon's weapons and ammunition, the Communists set the dead bodies afire with gasoline, then slipped back into their jungle cover...
...himself, Rees purchased a $16,000 plot of land, and he met a bookie who would let him play the ponies at $2,000 a crack. But, he claimed, he "found out that it was a scam [a con game] and had the guy beat up. They broke one side of his rib cage. He had taken me for a bunch...
...abortive Allied attempt to cross the Rhine in 1944 by parachuting 35,000 men behind the lines into Holland, the movie employed an army all by itself. Besides the stars, Director Richard Attenborough recruited 100 young actors in London and trained them to behave and, supposedly, even think, like crack British troops. For the dramatic scenes of the airborne assault, hundreds of paratroopers from a Belgian unit and from Britain's 16th Paratroop Brigade jumped out of antique DC-3 Dakotas...