Word: crash
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Peking have lined up together. From Chicago itself came two members of the city's police intelligence unit. Police Sergeant Joseph Grubisic revealed that "captured documents" disclosed plans by the demonstrators to heckle the presidential candidates, harass voters at the polls on Election Day and, finally, to crash the presidential inauguration in Washington next January...
...rescue her from a tricky question about the Pans peace talks. Joan was in Hoosier land campaigning for Bayh's reelection, reminding her audiences that it was he who had risked his life to pull her husband Teddy out of the wreckage in that near-fatal light-plane crash near Springfield, Mass., tour years ago. At one rally she let her listeners in on a little family secret by introducing former Notre Dame President Father John Cavanaugh as "the best priest friend Ted and I ever had " Said Joan: "We wanted him to marry us, but Cardinal Spellman said...
...trick film clip showing an elephant's foot squashing a TV station. When a commercial is announced, a man ostensibly from Allstate Insurance will cup his hands around a tiny house, saying "You're in good hands with . . .," and drop the house with a great shattering crash. In other sequences, a girl steps out of the shower, answers the phone, hands it into the shower and says...
...Oppenheimer. He describes a young scientist so lost in the abstractions of physics that he once drove an automobile up the courthouse steps of a Western town, a man so unworldly that he had no radio, did not read newspapers and first heard about the 1929 stock-market crash months after it happened...
...upsurge in new superstitions-the faith in flying saucers, the theory that H-bomb tests caused rain and that the test ban has since caused droughts. Even scientists are highly susceptible to superstitious beliefs. One California physicist who flies to Washington once a month eases his fear of a crash by carrying a special amulet: a copy of TIME, a magazine he otherwise dislikes...