These were augmented by troops Washington ordered north from the Hudson Highlands as part of General Arnold's operation to relieve Stanwix, which arrived at the end of August, and included the crack sharpshooters of Daniel Morgan's rifle corps, which he sent north from his own army.

Abrams said that only Trưởng and Phạm Văn Phú among the division and corps commanders had not begun to psychologically crack under the pressure of the communist onslaught.

At the Volunteer Review, July 24, 1861, before the Duke of Cambridge ; at the Hyde Park Review, June, 1865, before the Prince of Wales ; at the Midland Counties ' Review at Derby, June, 1867 ; at the Royal Review at Windsor in 1868 ; and at every inspection since, the Birmingham corps has merited and received the highest praise for general smartness and efficiency ; it was one of the crack corps of the kingdom.

Ike Turner would later claimed that he signed this under his will since he was heavily addicted to crack at the time and accepted a $ 50, 000 payment, waiving the right to sue the film company for their portrayal of him in the film.

This was part of Operation Ratweek to attack the enemy withdrawal, and air reconnaissance had confirmed the presence of a strong concentration of armour and motor transport there, although he said the use of 50 ‘ Heavies ’ or Flying Fortresses did seem rather like taking a sledge-hammer to crack a walnut ..

The " Caravan " and " Please be Cruel " singles only reached No. 30 and No. 50 respectively, and an attempt to crack the American market largely failed.

Average high temperatures in the summer routinely exceed 40 ° C and can easily crack the 50 ° C mark.

In April 2006, the magazine placed the album at Number 40 in a countdown of " The 50 Worst Albums Ever ", claiming the band had taken " the freewheeling spirit of band The Libertines ... remove ( d ) all the talent and added even more crack.

Security researchers found that password-cracking software " John the Ripper " was able to quickly crack over 50 % of the passwords from those records with crackable password hashes.

It revolves around a group of crack private military contractor fighter pilots in a group known as the ' Wildcats ', based in Turkey who fly F-16 Fighting Falcons.

It is one hypothesis why military jet pilots crack more teeth than auxiliary crew.

One beatnik got the woman he was living with so involved in drugs and self-analysis and all-night sessions of sex that she was beginning to crack up.

The regiment was dug in on the east side of the river and the North Koreans were steadily building up a concentration of crack troops on the other side.

Starting with the room completely blacked out, as it was when we came in, he unerringly fixed things so that the whole place was bathed in the maximum of light without at any point admitting even so much as a crack of glare.

Bill Weigand was good and tired of the wall opposite, and the crack in the plaster.

There was a thick, squashy crack of fist on flesh.

The thunk was louder, anyway, and I thought I heard bone crack.

The test is unstable ( i. e. the crack propagates along the entire specimen once a critical load is attained ) and a modified version of this test characterised by a non constant inertia was proposed called the tapered double cantilever beam ( TDCB ) specimen.

The Nazi movement, from nearly the start, denounced the Bauhaus for its " degenerate art ", and the Nazi regime was determined to crack down on what it saw as the foreign, probably Jewish influences of " cosmopolitan modernism.

Corbett was positioned near a large crack in the barn wall.

She had signed with Monument Records in late 1965, where she was initially pitched as a bubblegum pop singer, earning only one national-chart single, " Happy, Happy Birthday Baby ", which did not crack the Billboard Hot 100.

As the water was absorbed, the wedges expanded, causing the rock to crack.

It lay in the middle of the desert, was unbelievably hot in summer, had no fresh water, no vegetation and mountains of tailings blew into every crack with every wisp of wind.

However, as in any other cryptographic system, care must be used to correctly apply even information-theoretically secure methods ; the Venona project was able to crack the one-time pads of the Soviet Union due to their improper reuse of key material.

The Kornilov Division, one of the crack units of the White Army, was named after him, as well as many other autonomous White Army formations, such as the Kuban Cossack Kornilov Horse Regiment.

Bentine was a crack pistol shot and helped to start the idea of a counter-terrorist wing within 22 SAS Regiment.

It is said that the opal will crack if it is worn by someone who was not born in October.

I'd probably crack his head open to show him how valuable I was.

The album provided two mainstream hits: the lead single " Price to Play ", and " So Far Away " ( which spent 14 weeks on top of the rock chart, and was featured on an episode of Smallville ); in addition, two other singles failed to crack the Hot 100 —" How About You " and " Zoe Jane "— but " How About You " was a fairly popular song on modern rock radio.

Blessed with extraordinary eyesight and hand-eye coordination, he was a skilled athlete, crack shot and self-taught golfer good enough to turn professional.

This powerful and unprecedented statement from the Hall of Fame podium was " a first crack in the door that ultimately would open and include Paige and Gibson and other Negro League stars in the shrine.

However, at the base of this crack is a round void called an ampulla which would have functioned to distribute force over a larger surface area, hindering the ability of the " crack " formed by the serration to propagate through the tooth.

Since the cracking is likely due to a brittle neck, the cases should be annealed before attempting to reform them, or the crack may propagate and ruin the newly formed shorter case as well.

It was formed when water carrying gypsum in solution deposited the mineral in a crack in the rock.

It was formed when water carrying gypsum in solution deposited the mineral in a crack in the rock.

Sadly, a crack formed in the pool in the 1970s after the pool was in the city of Irondale's control and the pool was rendered unusable.

Remains found at archaeological sites suggest that the inhabitants used a method of divination based on interpreting the crack patterns formed in heated cattle bones.

A ' shrinkage ' crack ( formed during prior dry weather ) at the top of the slip may also fill with rain water, pushing the slip forward.

McGriff came to prominence in the early 1980s when he formed his own crack distributing organization which he called the Supreme Team based in the South Jamaica section of Queens, New York.

This void, termed an ampulla, would hinder the ability of the " crack " formed by the serration to propagate through the tooth.

An ice wedge is a crack in the ground formed by a narrow or thin piece of ice that measures up to 3-4 metres wide at ground level and extends downwards into the ground up to several metres.

The rock is gneiss, formed into a broken rock wall of huge corners, concave roofs, and crack systems, topped with a series of spires and pinnacles on the summit rim.

At this time, the Western Region ( formed upon Nationalisation in 1948 largely from the Great Western Railway ) had just assumed control of this line west of Salisbury from the Southern Region of British Railways and conveniently used the " no more crack expresses " edict to get revenge on its pre-Nationalisation rival the Southern Railway by withdrawing altogether the SR's Atlantic Coast Express, which worked beyond Exeter, and replacing it with a semi-fast Waterloo – Exeter service hauled by D800s.