Word: crashing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Coach Floyd Stahl, aided by Chief "Crash" Davis, is still engaged in weeding the first-string material from the 40-odd men who have come out for the baseball Varsity. With only three positions on the home team even tentatively decided, the race for a Varsity post continues unabated...
Americans died by the dozens in the crash of tons of steel. Others drowned in the Rhine's swift current. Many were swept to the first ponton bridge and dragged to safety...
Raymond Clapper, plainspeaking, widely read, plain man's columnist who was killed in a plane crash during the invasion of the Marshalls a year ago, was posthumously awarded the Purple Heart by the U.S. Navy, which cited him as a "brilliant journalist" who died in "gallant company and in a worthy cause...
Died. Major William N. ("Memphis Bill") Mallory, 43, intelligence officer of the U.S. Twelfth (Tactical) Air Force, Yale's 1923 All-America fullback; in the take-off crash of a plane returning him to the U.S. for discharge (over-age); in Italy. He received the Legion of Merit last December for his famed "Operation Mallory Major," which cut 22 of 24 Po River bridges...
...ocean-flying airmen, one mental hazard is the fear of being trapped in a submerged plane after a crash landing at sea-as many an airman has been trapped and drowned. Last week the Army's Air Technical Service Command announced an ingenious device to help trapped flyers: an oxygen mask for breathing under water while they fight clear of the plane...