Word: crashing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...crash myself but several of the pilots of No. 18 Squadron, on the same aerodrome, saw Richthofen come down and the report was that a Lieutenant Brown had brought him down, though at the same time machine gunners on the ground claimed that they had put his machine out of action. . . . "One thing is certain; his machine crashed with considerable violence on the ground, and it is sure that von Richthofen was dead before he crashed...
Pompey fell with a great crash and was executed by his treacherous freedman. Napoleon ate his heart out in solitude at St. Helenn. Charles I went to his death after a revolution. William II's career stopped as dramatically as any of these; why has he not suffered a similar fate? It may be that the fates are too busy to pursue a man his size. The lot of an arrogant country gentleman seems to fit him better than that of the most powerful monarch of his time...
...Maryland" was his last spurt, the gesture of a man who had been beaten by age rather than by any such putty-faced whippersnapper as his opponent. His hands slipped from the keyboard; stiffly he rose to hear Pianist Burt, winner of the championship and a purse of $2000, crash into his finale, "America...
Other witnesses for the defense told that certain airplanes are used which are known as especially likely to catch fire if they crash; that anti-aircraft fire is not an effective protection against airplane attack...
...stock market, led by the motor shares, had continued to soar for months and a reaction was obviously overdue. In such a situation, as has often been proved, the crash in prices can be and usually is attributed to almost any event whether it has any close bearing on the stock market or not. In this particular case it was raising of the rediscount rate of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston from 3½% to 4%-a step occasioned by purely local conditions. Speculators in stocks, dealing in a market which had grown top-heavy of its own accord...