Word: crash
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...soon caught by pursuing motorcycle police, who took the two nearly hysterical Egyptians and their baggage to a police station. When the cops opened the trunk they goggled at the contents: a slim, blond young man, strapped into an adjustable chair, with his head encased in a sort of crash helmet and his feet thrust into shoes nailed to the floor of the trunk. Small ventilating holes had been drilled into the sides to let him breathe...
...government work force was threatening to strike unless salaries were increased 35%, and the government was expected to bow to the demands, grant its employees their fourth substantial raise in five years. - Disheartened economists were sadly contemplating a batch of disastrous financial figures. The value of the peso has crash dived from 90 to 50 in 20 months. The cost of living went up 45% last year, has climbed 30% more this year. The government's proposed $258 million budget for 1965 includes a planned deficit of $29 million; others say it will be more like $83 million...
...Robot. Rockne died in a plane crash in 1931, and for a while it looked as if Notre Dame's football fortunes were riding the same plane: the Irish experienced their first losing season in 45 years. But in 1941, Notre Dame got a new coach?an Irishman, yet?and the leprechauns became giants again. Tough and tightlipped, Frank Leahy had nothing in common with Rockne except a ferocious desire to win all the time. His players called him "The Robot," and he drove them mercilessly. "I want to see blood on the quarterbacks' hands when you snap the ball...
...High Coach Frank ("Doc") Wargo remembers one encounter against Steubenville High, an Ohio Valley team made up mostly of miners' sons. "Ara was tough. But Steubenville had a tough fullback too. On the first play from scrimmage, the two of them met headon, and you could hear the helmets crash. Both boys went down. After a few seconds, Ara jumped up. They carried their fullback...
...Economy. Economically, Red China is still suffering from the disastrous "Great Leap Forward," a shortlived 1958-61 attempt at crash industrialization and collectivization that resulted in a major drop backward. The country is also still feeling the effects of the 1960 pullout of Russian technicians, who not only took their blueprints with them but also, in a final fraternal gesture, sabotaged the machinery they left behind. In North China people in rags still live in the same caves around Yenan in which Mao and his men holed up for years after the Long March. All kinds of consumer goods...