Word: cracks
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Emperor has found the postwar world more baffling. At first he sided with the West, sent crack troops to Korea. Then he caught the neutralist bug, and last year set off on a flurry of state visits-to "our great friend" Tito, to Nasser, to Russia and Czechoslovakia. He brought back a $100 million Soviet loan...
...ballerinas, and professors were the local gods. Young Franz Josef might have gone right on cutting Weiss-null and Leberkds all his life if the parish priest had not observed how swiftly the lad caught the meaning of his Latin prayers and helped get him a scholarship at the crack Maximilian Gymnasium...
...Blodgett should give the Crimson a first place in the pole vault but there will be a dogfight behind him for the rest of the points in that event. Miler Mark Mullin will take a crack at the present meet record of 4:20.8 if conditions are right, but he will face serious competition from B.U.'s Freeman...
...York's Rockland State Hospital, Dr. Robert Soblen was looked upon as a crack psychiatrist, even if a crusty one. He took a fatherly interest in the 100 mentally distressed adolescent boys in his care, saw to it that they had weekly jukebox parties, inspired them to learn trades, helped many of them to rehabilitate themselves. Respecting his professional skill, other doctors overlooked his personal quirks: a nervous temper, a streak of arrogance. Many knew but few cared that Robert Soblen was the brother and image of confessed Communist Spy Jack Soble, sentenced in 1957 to seven years...
Last week, under pressure from Congress and the State Department, the A.M.A. relented a bit on its pass-the-test-or-get-out policy. Foreign doctors who flunked the September exam may remain with their hospitals until next July 1 can take another crack at the qualifying test in April. But they will not be permitted to treat patients until they pass the exam. The A.M.A. and the State Department also agreed that in the future, foreign doctors who want to work in the U.S. must pass the qualifying examinations in their own countries before even applying for exchange-visitor...