Word: crash
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...vintage Reagan, as flawlessly paced and as forcefully persuasive as any of his campaign speeches-which is what the address basically was. With a showman's instinct, he evoked the heroic spirit of Leonard Skutnik, who dived into the Potomac last month to rescue a drowning plane crash victim (see box), and stirring speeches to Congress by Winston Churchill, Franklin Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln. Only when he touched on foreign policy did he shift about nervously, as if on unsure terrain...
Skutnik, 28, a $14,000-a-year clerk at the Congressional Budget Office, dived into the icy river to rescue a survivor of the Air Florida crash. Overnight he became a national celebrity, besieged by thousands of letters from admirers, scores of interview requests and more than a dozen invitations from organizations wanting to honor him. To the President, he was a symbol of American heroism...
...this spirit that inspired him to seize a phrase from Henry David Thoreau ("Nothing is so much to be feared as fear") for his famous declaration that "the only thing we have to fear is fear itself." There had been three years of Government dithering since the Crash, and a new course was to be set. Said Roosevelt: "This nation asks for action...
...fraying suits of clothes, and a wholly understandable preoccupation." Born to poverty as the son of an Iowa harnessmaker, Hopkins had worked one summer among the slum children of New York City's Lower East Side, and that experience turned him into a professional social worker. When the Crash came, Governor Roosevelt made Hopkins head of New York's emergency relief, the nation's first such state program. Spreading money among the poor became Hopkins' life's passion, rivaled only by his passion for losing money at the race track...
Seconds after takeoff on his first try with a hang glider, a sudden gust of wind caused Craig Vetter to crash. He spent two months in a wheelchair, learning to hate what many disabled persons call the "chrome-plated torture rack." Now, one year later, Industrial Designer Vetter, 39, has put his own well-engineered, light, agile and elegant wheelchair design on the market. As yet custom made, Vetter's chair also comes in a sports model for wheelchair tennis, basketball or marathons...