Word: crash
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Wash board. Looking like a small lady Martian in her white crash helmet and goggles, New Hampshire's round-cheeked, chunky Penny Pitou, 21, was the first skier to jab her poles into the snow and set off. Penny plummeted through the schuss, hit the bump at such a speed that she was forced to the washboard surface on the outside of the turn. For one frantic second, she tottered on one ski, then recovered control to flash home...
Going flat out to save the day, California's Linda Meyers, 22, sprawled in the snow in almost exactly the same spot. New Hampshire's Joan Hannah, 20, arms flailing wildly, made it all the way through Airplane only to crash into a control gate at turn's exit...
Those were the days when aviators were known by the adventures they logged. When the German plane Bremen crash-landed off Labrador after its historic east-west Atlantic crossing in 1928, Quesada and a young captain named Ira Eaker flew north to help save the crew. At one point during that mission, Quesada got lost flying above the clouds. He began thinking "how marvelous it would be if there were some way to do airborne refueling on a continuous basis." Quesada later got Eaker to push his idea with high Air Corps brass. The result was the famous Question Mark...
...roaring fire set, frostbiting would seem a study in self-torture. Capsized boats are routine, and on any wintry Sunday half a dozen sailors are dragged gasping from near 35° water, either by the crash boat or by their nearest rival, who by rule is compelled to fish them out. The salt spray often freezes, glazing the floorboards with ice, and the cold numbs the pain of injury. Knapp's index finger was badly frostbitten last year, but he cannot recall when it happened. Skipper Alex Gest noticed a pool of blood in his dinghy...
...Crash Programs. Human contraband, says Author Terrot, was appallingly easy to smuggle out of the country. Small children were frequently doped and shipped across in coffins provided with air holes. Many of the teen-age victims, believing themselves bound for a pleasant position on the Continent, went willingly. The unwilling victim was first "broken in" at the London clearinghouse, where she was brainwashed by a covin of resident witches who subjected her to a crash program of sex education. If she did not cooperate, she did not eat. Then, auctioned off in Brussels or Antwerp, then the chief centers...