Word: crash
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...think that in the past week, since our difficult loss against Brown, we’ve been working a lot on defense and getting the counterattack,” sophomore Stephanie Lee said. “We were having a lot of people crash back to set which allowed for a lot of steals and counterattacks...
Army Captain James F. “Jimmy” Adamouski, who planned to enter Harvard Business School (HBS) this fall, was killed in a helicopter crash in Iraq last Wednesday...
...heard a few days before about the assassination of Ernst vom Rath, an official at the German embassy in Paris, killed by a Polish Jew, and it was a very bad omen. Everything went fine until about 2:30 in the morning, when we were awakened by a big crash. I got up and didn't know what might have happened. I lived in a large dormitory room with two friends. I thought that it was something terrible and that we should be ready to meet the emergency. We packed our valises in case we needed to leave. We heard...
...America's first painter--pop star, the drunken angel of an emerging hipster culture in search of new routes to those old American goals, the instinctive and the transcendent. Though the role unnerved him, it was secured forever in 1956, when he died, like James Dean, in a car crash. But by that time the energies he had released were in motion everywhere. The painter Willem de Kooning said it best: "He broke the ice." True enough, but it broke him too. --By Richard Lacayo
...we’re not even talking about the sports in which people actually hit each other. This is crew, in which the most violent event is, in theory, Crash B’s, and that’s only because of the name of the meet. It’s breezing up and down the (mostly) tranquil Charles River. It’s the sound of a diminutive but dedicated leader yelling “stroke” repeatedly as geese fly by and joggers pause to take in the idyllic scene...