Word: crash
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...planter spotted two Africans he believed had been with a rebel band that burned his plantation. He led a pick-up mob of whites down Luanda's main street. The mob literally tore one man limb from limb, pitched the other screaming off a six-story roof to crash through the candy-striped umbrella of a sidewalk cafe. The police casually watched...
...recent Sunday the quiet of a back street in Brooklyn was shattered by an automobile crash that left both cars heaps of twisted junk. "Very satisfying," said the man with the tape recorder. His boss disagreed. "It has presence," he admitted solemnly, "but the thump is missing. Let's try it again...
...public taste. Recently he reluctantly abandoned the sound of a belching baby for fear that it might offend potential customers, and he ruled out frying bacon and tooth brushing as not sufficiently dramatic. But he hopes soon to record an aerial dogfight between two World War I relics, the crash of a sprung gallows trap, the whack of a guillotine blade against the block. And his enduring dream is to catch on his own high-fidelity equipment the mid-century's ultimate sound-an exploding hydrogen bomb...
Like a man who has dropped a piano from a great height, the U.S. last week began gingerly assessing the wreckage of President Kennedy's hopeful new hemisphere Alliance for Progress. The Cuban crash still echoed throughout Latin America, and much woodwork was splintered. But after examination, it seemed as if the instrument might still be made to play...
Wonderful Flummery. Now, on the anniversary of the first shot in The War Between the States, G.W.T.W. has once more gone into crash release in 200 major theaters across the U.S. To judge from the block-long ticket lines and the weeping, cheering customers, Selznick's epic will make more money this time around than it ever has before. But surely the old warhorse has been spavined by time and enfeebled by continual exposure? Not at all. G.W.T.W. is as great a show today as it was 20 years ago, a magnificent piece of popular entertainment, undoubtedly the greatest...