Word: crash
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Pierre was born in San Francisco on June 14, 1925. His father, a New York-born mining engineer and a devoted amateur musician, died in a 1941 auto crash. His mother, daughter of a minor French politician-journalist, was and remains, in her sixties, an effervescent, amiable busybody with a penchant for supporting liberal causes. She now lives in Carmel, Calif., enjoys nothing more than regaling reporters with clinical details regarding the problems she had nursing little Pierre...
...below them. If no beer is forthcoming, the haylofters boo their target unmercifully, indulging in a "cult of disrespectfulness" that is half the fun of the Six Days. When West German Defense Minister Kai-Uwe von Hassel appeared one night, he was roundly booed. But when he donned a crash helmet and bravely mounted a racing bike, the crowd went wild...
Several Cambridge high school students had reportedly tried to crash a party, and when they were chased, pulled a fire alarm and eluded the pursuers...
...Senate. Many of his reforms have been denied the appropriations necessary to make them work. More erosive to his chances for re-election is Macapagal's own personality-or lack of it. Volatile Filipinos want a volatile leader, like peppery Ramon Magsaysay, who was killed in a plane crash seven years ago. Diosdado (Spanish for "God-given") Macapagal, at 54, is well-meaning but dour, a self-proclaimed "poor boy" from the distant provinces who prefers conservative business suits to the cool, frilly barong tagalog sport shirt favored by Manila sports and Magsaysay...
...President may conclude the day with a visit to the beside of recovering Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass.) in Boston. Kennedy suffered a broken back in an airplane crash early in the summer...