Word: crashing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...owner, Charles Dana Gibson, back to work at his trade of illustrator, dropped Walter Winchell, took on Odd Mclntyre and jacked circulation from 40,000 to 100,000 within six months. Said conservative Charles Dana Gibson: "Son, you're here for the rest of your life!" The financial crash a few months later made it a year instead of a lifetime...
...Army Ordnance Proving Ground. If the experts have figured correctly (see diagram), the rocket may be expected to zoom faster and higher than any projectile has yet flown, with the possible exception of a few wartime German V-2s. If the Army knows where the monster is going to crash land, it is not telling...
...After the Thirty Years' War (1618-48) Europe enjoyed a long period of relative quiet. That war devastated large parts of Europe, killed off millions of people and left starvation and disease . . . and there was no rich Uncle Sam across the ocean to crash through with food. . . . Won't this postwar charity and generosity of ours encourage Europe to go on staging big wars...
...boundaries are frontier guards, specialized soldiers with enormous jaws, or with syringe-like heads which squirt out corrosive liquids. So attached are termites to secrecy that a structure invaded by them seldom collapses of its own weight. They are careful to leave enough wood to support it, lest its crash expose them...
...House Military Affairs Committee called in a whole array of experts: State Secretary Byrnes, War Secretary Patterson, Chief of Staff Eisenhower, Chief of Naval Operations Nimitz, the Air Forces' General Spaatz. Many a Congressman not on the committee tried to crash the closed hearing without success...