Word: crashing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gasoline ran into elevator shafts and exploded. Parts of the plane sheared elevator cables, and one elevator fell. One of the plane's engines crashed into an elevator shaft, screeched 79 floors, fell on the cab, carried it down to wreckage in the basement. The other engine and other heavy parts ripped through seven inner walls, then tore a hole in the south side of the building-90 feet from the point of crash. The wreckage fell in a sculptor's 12th-floor penthouse studio in a building across the street, caused another fire...
...streets, 913 feet below the crash area, jagged bits of wings, hunks of metal and stone fell as far as five blocks away...
...first big city captured in World War II had been almost forgotten. But last week the U.S. Seventh Air Force brought Shanghai back into the headlines with a sudden crash...
...Alan with all four limbs amputated. One other Army man, a pilot, has lost parts of four limbs but not as a result of wounds: he froze both hands & feet after a plane crash in New England...
...finest, most applauded novel, The Great Gatsby (1925), Fitzgerald succeeded superbly in portraying the hollowness of his racketeer-hero's life. But it was not until the crash had turned his New York playground into an "echoing tomb" where "cocktail parties [rang] with [cries of] 'Shoot me, for the love of God, someone shoot me!' " that his tone grew truly grim. Even so, he still had money, good looks, devoted friends, popularity. His passion for work continued ; he sold stories to the richer magazines; he went to work in Hollywood...