Word: crashing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...crash of falling governments had rudely reminded the U.S. State Department of an unpleasant fact: something was radically wrong with its Latin American policy. In eight weeks, a succession of military coups had toppled three governments, threatened two others; until last week the U.S. had failed to react...
Water Landing. The C-54's pilot, war-toughened, black-haired Lieut. Colonel William R. Calhoun Jr. of Birmingham, Ala., ditched the plane beautifully. But the C-54 hit the rough Pacific sea with a bone-jarring crash. Its lights went out. Debris flew through the cabin. The tail snapped off and so did the left wing...
...this chamber that protrous are sent spinning at whirlwind velocities before they crash into fissionable material. However, all the air must be removed so that the protons will not collide with stray atoms in their path. This is the reason for the vacuum...
...could keep the city going for a month with no resupply at all. Despite the weather, and wholesale predictions of a prohibitive accident rate, only three U.S. planes had cracked up so far this month. All crewmen escaped without fatal injuries (though three British airmen died in one R.A.F. crash...
...those days, becoming a labor organizer meant going to war. The history of labor in the Northwest was full of the sound of rifle fire, the crash of explosives, and the surrealistic thud of club on skull. The noisiest battles had been set off by the I.W.W. in its invasions of the woods and sawmills. In the celebrated Centralia massacre of 1919, Wobblies shot down four parading American Legionnaires; three years earlier in an equally bloody battle at Everett, Wash, in 1916, gun-toting deputy sheriffs killed or wounded 36 men with I.W.W. cards...