Word: cracking
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Union-Minnesota." Elwood. Ind.. Willkie's birthplace, the statement went on, barred Negroes as residents, put up signs warning: "Nigger, Don't Let the Sun Go Down on You". The document quoted Harlan Miller, columnist on the Boston Traveler, as saying that Willkie's favorite crack under emotional stress was: "You can't do this to me-I am a white...
...work on Amboina and Surabaya. In 1914, Tsingtao, garrisoned by about 6,000 German troops and wide open to attack, held out against the Japanese and British for more than two months. Better munitioned and better located (on an island) than Tsingtao, Hong Kong is garrisoned by 12,000 crack British troops. Once having silenced Hong Kong, Surabaya and Amboina, the Japanese Fleet might swing around the east side of Borneo-trusting to distance and superior force to keep off the British from Singapore-and force a Borneo landing, would even then have only a fair start to conquest...
...Alfaro has served on several Pan-American committees, has picked up decorations from Peru, Venezuela, France. As President pro tem after Rebel Arias' coup, he balanced the budget, turned the National Bank deficit into a credit. With the support of the Leftist Liberals he set out to crack the N. R. P., which has dominated Panama's politics since...
Studebaker's 49-year-old Paul Gray Hoffman, onetime crack West Coast salesman but president since 1935, made his bid for the low-priced field in 1939 with the completely new Champion. Clicking, it boosted Studebaker sales from 53,000 (1938) to 114,000 in 1939. Principal change in the appearance of the '41 Studebaker: chromium-bordered band of contrasting color around the body. Priced from $690 to $1,225, the line includes a new body type, "Land Cruiser...
...Central America a plane could land. He also managed to keep on the right side of the volatile Central American Governments, even did air fighting for Honduras against revolutionists. One day while he was strafing native troops, a rifle bullet smacked his head, put out an eye. A crack pilot, he banked his plane for home, made the field before collapsing. Now he has a glass...