Word: crackup
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Although his pushmobile racer suffered tour smashed wheels and he was badly bruised in a first-heat crackup, eleven-year-old Joe Lunn of Thomasville, Ga. effected repairs, got bandaged up, and pressed on to win the 15th running of the All American Soap Box Derby at Akron, Ohio. Time for the 9754-ft. course...
...five months). He made a couple of fancy killings importing machinery from the U.S. and olive trees from Portugal. He took to trading in diamonds, speculating in real estate. Toward the end, he began hinting he had a "big backer" who could always find millions for him. Yet the crackup, when it came, caught Rio by surprise. Felipetas in hand, creditors rushed frantically to Albuquerque's Rua Mexico headquarters. Officers, janitors, housewives, merchants swarmed into the empty offices...
...many early-season games got rained out that doubleheaders-to make up for the washouts-are cramming the big-league schedules. In the National League, the Brooklyn Dodgers were sagging a trifle (to .664), but showed no signs of repeating their disastrous 1951 crackup. If Brooklyn keeps winning at the present clip, the New York Giants, trailing by 7½ games, can take the pennant only by winning 38 times in 43 tries. In the American League, the New York Yankees kept on taking the tough ones, thus kept a 1½-game edge on the Cleveland Indians. The league...
Soon after, Manning had a crackup in his own Fairchild monoplane. He was hauled from the wreckage with a concussion, compound fractures of both legs, a compound jaw fracture, a broken arm, a broken nose, and countless cuts and bruises. Doctors thought he would never walk again. But nine months after the crackup he was back on the bridge...
...squeamish. No one has brought back a truer, tougher fictional report on jungle warfare since Norman Mailer wrote The Naked and the Dead. But the shocks in Look Down in Mercy are shocks of event minus droning obscenities. Novelist Baxter writes his story of the crackup of Captain Anthony Kent with what restraint...