Word: crashing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With a rainy spell wiping out all sports encounters during the past few days. Coach Floyd Stahl's Varsity nine lay idle Wednesday while chief "Crash" Davis's Jayvees made a futile trip to Andover. Both games were cancelled without any future date set for delaying them, but they probably will be rescheduled later, declared Carroll F. Getchell, acting director of the Harvard Athletic Association, yesterday...
...Admiral's communique told the U.S. public what the U.S. press had dutifully refrained from telling: that the Japanese have organized a suicide corps of flyers whose mission is to crash-dive their explosives-laden aircraft into ships; that this Kamikaze (Divine Tempest) Corps has damaged some major U.S. fleet units and sunk some smaller ships...
...reference left no doubt that the Navy now recognizes these banzai air charges as a tactical policy, a desperate attempt to halt the U.S. fleet's advances on the home islands. It was also clear that the Navy would not have permitted correspondents to tell of crash dives if it had not found ways to make them mainly ineffective...
...Netherlands, if true, might mean that the enemy would send over a final shower. Besides, V-1 could still be launched at England from planes operating at night from Germany itself. The despairing Nazis might even load up their obsolete bombers with explosives and guide them by radio to crash in England...
...bent nose, he looks like the halfback he once was (Western Reserve University). He gave up college because classes cost him money: they kept him from selling bonds. At 27, he had earned a half million dollars, and a few months later went broke in the 1929 crash...