Word: crashing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rudolf Hess crouched in the darkened auditorium, impassively listening to the Wagnerian crash of the talkie's sound track. Suddenly he half rose: before him on the screen was Rudolf Hess, Deputy Fuhrer of the Third Reich, in the center of the triumphant 1934 Nazi Party Congress. Next to him, Adolf Hitler capered with...
...screen in a mother plane or on the ground. Observers can study the plane's performance as if they were in the cockpit. If the speed limit is passed, and the plane screams down to earth, no life is lost. The records of the flight survive the crash...
...Billy Jr., who was a promising left fielder with the Toronto Maple Leafs, became an Army Air Forces pilot in 1941, was killed last winter in a B-29 crash. It took Billy Sr. half a season to get back in stride...
Died. Jack Nichols, 49, T.W.A.'s vice president in charge of international operations, onetime Congressman from Oklahoma (who headed a House committee investigating airplane crashes); in an Army 6-25 crash; on an airline survey flight from Asmara, Eritrea, to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia...
...Guillermo Meza was one of the youngest and most gifted of the Mexicans shown in Manhattan. His masterful painting of a surf-wearied swimmer got some of the ebb and crash of its title, The Sea. Meza took up painting because he did not have enough money for music lessons. He wanted to be a strolling musician; now he paints twelve hours...