Word: cracking
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...Carter is apparently having it both ways: keeping his black supporters while telling nervous whites that he would not crack their neighborhoods with forced integration. That stand could win him support next week from the many white ethnic groups in Pennsylvania...
...crack of noon a communal yell commenced the kaleidoscope start. Bromwich was far enough back in the pack that he didn't reach the starting line until almost 90 seconds into the race. "It was very hot at the start, but I had very few problems and felt good for the first ten miles. And could you believe those women at Wellesley, [approximately the halfway point] they were so enthusiastic, they gave everyone a lift...
Corby Saunders gave the Crimson a first inning lead of 1-0, belting a triple which drove in freshman Dave Singleton from first base. Singleton, who had four hits in five trips to the plate, then came back in the second after Barry Cronin's run-scoring triple to crack a two-run homer and give the Crimson its four-run edge...
...authority for their overall theme that Mr. Nixon was a basket case at the end of Watergate," he says. "I don't think it was a bad-faith distortion, but I think they were a little single-minded." Eisenhower contends that he "kept waiting for Mr. Nixon to crack" and he did not, but that the book portrays Nixon "as a kind of broken man-emotionally and mentally and every other way. He wasn't." Eisenhower denies that he ever feared Nixon might commit suicide, as the book reported. "I never felt that," he insists. "He was fundamentally...
Yost touched him for a triple in the fourth, scoring on Phil Kornbluth's single, and came back in the eighth to crack a mammoth home run and close out the day's scoring...