Word: cracking
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...months the automakers stuck to these increases in the face of falling sales on the argument that the rises represented only a partial catch-up with past hikes in the cost of labor and materials. But now Detroit's price wall is beginning to crack. This week Chrysler is launching an unprecedented "Car Clearance Carnival" that industry experts describe as one of the most intriguing Detroit sales experiments in years...
Conserving to Crack the Cartel...
...breed like rabbits. Show Business Secretary Esther Nichols' parakeet, Rosebud, is said to have been rescued from an attempted suicide after diving from a fifth-floor window overlooking Madison Avenue, while Copy Desk Assistant Judith Paul's late Chihuahua-terrier crossbreed, Cookie, was known to hunt bees, crack walnuts and eat corn...
...North Vietnamese forces now number about 285,000, up 65,000 in the past two years. All-weather roads have replaced the slow Ho Chi Minh Trail as a supply route, down which ammunition and replacements flow from the North. Since U.S. bombing in Indochina ended last year, the crack North Vietnamese army (NVA) 5th Division has been able to return to its traditional base area in the Parrot's Beak inside Cambodia. There it poses a constant threat to Tay Ninh...
...code requires that a husband avenge an insult to his wife's honor, so Leone accedes and presses Guido, who also happens to be his good friend, into serving as his second. Guido issues an unconditional challenge, only too slyly aware that the marquis is both a crack pistol shot and a master swordsman. But Leone makes the final move on the chessboard of fate. By the iron rules of the game, the second must fight if the principal, for whatever reason, refuses. Leone refuses. And Guido...