Word: cracking
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Besides, while the British army is still rounding up I.R.A. terrorists in Ulster, English police have so far failed to crack any of the tiny "active service units" that have brought the bloody civil war across the Irish Sea to England. In London, Home Secretary Roy Jenkins at week's end pledged "emergency legislation" to combat the terrorists...
...puzzled huskies. He was not so happy when the dogs set up a wail reminiscent of / Pagliacci. "Mush!" he cried, and swung the whip in his wife's direction saying, "It's the first time in more than 35 years I've had a chance to crack a whip over my wife...
Harvard's soccer team took a crack at the defending Ivy champs Saturday, but lost, 2-1, allowing Brown to extend its Ivy winning streak to 12 consecutive victories. The Crimson booters' record is now 7-3-1 overall, and 5-1 in the Ivies...
...time an English teacher (he still unwinds by reading Wordsworth and Keats). He later became a corporate securities lawyer and then a middle-level Treasury official. He left that post in 1973 for the Federal Energy Office, then headed by Simon, where he established himself as a crack coordinator and credible witness in congressional hearings. When Simon became Treasury Secretary, he tailored a new job especially for Parsky. Among other things, Parsky is charged with developing policies to muffle the impact of high-priced oil imports on the U.S. balance of payments. Last week Parsky was in Cairo to discuss...
Probably the most serious charge of vehicular homicide of the senses can be brought against The Manhunter (CBS, Wednesday, 10 p.m. E.S.T.). Ken Howard plays a rural private eye of the 1930s as if he were afraid that sudden mobilization of his facial muscles would crack his handsome lines. Luckily the scripts require him to do little more than slip behind the wheel of what bad old novels described as a "high-powered" car and set off on cross-country chases after the current episode's miscreants. For variety, there are many closeups of the car's head...