Sentence examples for crack corps from inspiring English sources

To improve service, Harvey trained a crack corps of waitresses called Harvey Girls.

In fact, over the course of the last month, I have heard hundreds of jokes, thousands of near misses and even a couple of howlers, all perpetrated by the city's crack corps of comedians.

I can't claim to have given every bar close attention; a patch of recitative in the early opera "La Finta Semplice," for example, was disrupted by a protracted public-address announcement at Detroit Metro Airport, and most of the Contredanse No. 4 in F (K. 101) was drowned out by the crack drum corps Drumedies performing in the Times Square subway station.

The X Corps, fighting a crack Chinese army and two North Korean corps, pushed northward through the mountains and succeeded only in making "Bloody Ridge," "Heartbreak Ridge," "The Punchbowl," and Kanmubong Ridge bad memories for thousands of army and marine veterans.

Corps offer this opportunity.

Mr. Stewart is backed by a crack team of writers and a corps of correspondents, but no band.

Those troops 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.

Although some have switched sides rather than kill their compatriots, Mr Assad commands crack units and a relatively loyal officer corps, as well as tanks, heavy artillery and an air force.

Many in the corps also played a role in cracking down on the enduring protests after Iran's disputed presidential election in June.

This week's revelations concerning Rosen have only heightened anxiety in the press corps about extreme measures the Obama administration will take cracking down on unsanctioned leaks to reporters.

COPELAND I really felt like I was going to crack when I went through probably three or four years of trying to pace myself in doing a full corps schedule on top of soloist and sometimes a principal part.