Word: crack-up
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...straight runway, the professor reasons, is fine if it is long enough. But often, even on a very long runway, a faltering engine or iced-up wings can dump an airplane in crack-up territory beyond the airport fence. A circular runway, on the other hand, is infinitely long because an airplane, tethered to its center, can fly around it indefinitely. The pilot need not fear "running out of runway." Even if his engine dies after the takeoff, his airplane can circle safely to the ground again...
What the hero has to forgive himself is the crack-up of two marriages. What the reader will have to forgive Author Christopher Isherwood is a second-rate novel that sounds no more than an echo to the stories Isherwood told better in Goodbye to Berlin and Prater Violet...
...Long Island sales manager for European cars. Pushing his Jaguar at an 80-m.p.h. clip, Grey went into a spin, flipped over a time and a half, skidded to an upside-down stop just 20 feet from a conspicuous sign: "No Spectator Area." Grey crawled out of the crack-up with only a few bruises. Two spectators were not so lucky. They ended up in the hospital with broken ankles and other assorted injuries. Unable to control the crowds, the race committee of the Sports Car Club of America stopped the race and called off the whole show...
...crack-up apparently occurred when Hofer attempted to make a Uturn and was hit from behind by the second...
...Stalin would have us do; Taft is Stalin's candidate." At Cheyenne, Wyo.: "The Republicans haven't had a new idea since Harding's time." At Boise, Idaho: The forces opposed to price and wage controls are "ignorant special-interest groups . . . laying the basis for the crack-up the Kremlin has been looking...