Word: crashing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...next morning a detail of young soldiers under a Lieutenant Huisse, assisted by several municipal chemists and police, started carrying the packing cases to the waiting trucks. One clumsy soldier let a case fall. With crash after crash that broke windows a mile away, the cases exploded. The trucks were left two tangles of twisted steel in a puddle of burning oil and blood. Fourteen men were killed instantly. Parts of the bodies were blown 200 feet away. Only four of the 14 could be identified. Minister of the Interior Albert Sarraut promised a formal state funeral for the remains...
...were going to crack up we might as well sit down like a couple of men-and take it. ... I realized what a man feels like when he sits down in the electric chair. ... I wrote a note to my wife. I felt we were going to crash and probably burn up. I figured that is what you do when you crash. You usually burn so I wrote this note . . . put it in my pocket hoping they would find it if it did not burn too. . . . I prayed plenty. I was going to put Him to work if I could...
...arch at the U. S. end from its pier and the bridge fell. Useful chiefly for sightseeing, the collapse caused only a minor traffic problem between Niagara Falls, N. Y. and Niagara Falls, Ont. Three separate plans for new bridges were under way within a few hours of the crash...
Bewildered by a loud crash overhead followed by the mound of running water, students taking examinations in Memorial Hall were diverted from their work yesterday morning...
...crash, a result of a large boulder falling from the top of the picturesque roof that covers the hall, barely stopped the undergraduates writing. However, if the large object had not lodged in two intervening beams after a fall of several feet, it very probably would have crashed through the thin second ceiling immediately sheltering the main room...