Word: cracking
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...credit side, the Fleet had never before had the top-flight personnel that now man its ships. A majority of its enlisted men are high-school graduates. Its officers are well educated, carefully selected, bear down hard on training. It has a substantial sprinkling of oldtime sailormen, does a crack job of gunnery, engineering, flying, seamanship. In tonnage and gun power it is superior to anything Japan can put on the seas...
...wasn't that "momentarily" crack of yours a bit below the belt-say down about the shinbone...
...concluding crack is a professional boast and nothing more. You state the Army's schedule will not allow the defensive construction at these bases to be adequately completed before 1942. I'll bet my practically new chevrons that the Marines do the job in half that time or in other words twice as fast...
...curling back 165 miles along the coast of Africa's eastern horn to Alexandria. Middle East Commander Lieut. General Sir Archibald Percival Wavell was handicapped by having far fewer troops than Graziani. Even so, they were not spear-hurling Ethiopians nor rock-rolling Albanians but a hotchpotch of crack British units, Punjabis and South African volunteers, tough New Zealanders and wild Australians. Against them Graziani appeared to be committed to a frontal assault, while exposing his lengthening columns to attack from desert tanks on his right flank, the guns of the British Mediterranean Fleet on the left, mine traps...
...General's followers. Last week his revolution appeared destined to come no closer to reality in the end than Novelist Calder-Marshall's. Wise, tough little President Cárdenas was not going to be caught napping. He remained at the head of 10,000 crack troops, 200 miles northwest of the Capital...