Word: cracking
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...Morgan at nine, who had never played a varsity game in his life. Coach Jack Barnaby said. "He was like a kid on the football team who was called in for the first time at the Yale game. The pressure was terrific on the kid. But he didn't crack. He got tougher in the clutch against a guy who was just about even with...
...Stones has another score to settle tomorrow when he returns to Madison Square Garden for the U.S. Olympic invitational Irack Meet, and gets a crack at the only man to beat him this year...
...there is a coup in a country and the entering group is not democratic, Lodge said, "and if their actions are undertakes solely to enable their government to take is crack at is, the president to justified in aiding the country is possible...
...film is a mad send-up of future shock and the trappings of conventional scifi, but it works as a kind of crack-brained adventure. Fuest, who made his reputation with a couple of fang-in-cheek vampire flicks, has a good time parading Hero Jon Finch about in black - a color scheme observed even in his nail polish and toothbrush but modified in his shirts, which are sparkling white and ruffled, like a lapsed romantic poet's. It is comforting to know, how ever, that when some heroics are required, Finch can rise to the occasion...
...From the beginning of the Republic," House Speaker Nicholas Longworth once complained, "it has been the duty of every freeborn humorist to make jokes at us." He may have had in mind Mark Twain's crack that Congress is our only native American criminal class. But there have been times in recent years when the entire nation could have been indicted for contempt of Congress...