Word: crashing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With the landing crack-up almost certain, Bombardier Lieut. Edward M. Gibbens, of Mountain Home, Idaho, took a crash ax, doffed his parachute, perched on the narrow catwalk of the bomb bay and started knocking the bombs loose. As the last one dropped away, Gibbens skidded on the leaking hydraulic fluid and fell. With a frantic, one-handed clutch he caught hold of a bomb rack, slowly and painfully pulled himself back to safety as other crewmen came up to help...
...same time, Chief Crash Davis will field his B team against an invading squad from the Boston Marine Base. Sid Greeley, who last week shut out an ASTP team here with one hit, will probably start for the B team. This game will take place on the man diamond at Soldiers Field at 3:15 o'clock...
Born. To the late, great Raider Orde Charles Wingate, 41, bush-bearded jungle general, killed in a Burma plane crash (TIME, April 10); and Lorna Wingate, 26, his beauteous, Scottish-born widow: their first child, a son; in Aberdeen, Scotland...
Swedes got an unscheduled preview of a new German weapon last week. A pilotless, rocket-driven aircraft crashed near Bertilstorp, in south Sweden. Apparently it had strayed out of control of its radio beam. Observers who studied the wreckage said the craft had no wings, tail, or landing gear. It carried two spherical mines which were thrown 100 yards by the crash, but did not explode...
Then, when the Houses were built, they moved the Freshmen up into the Yard, still segregated but happy, and the good old Jubilee went with them to the Union. It stayed there for a long time through crash, depression, and tercentenary. Some of the top names graced the hall as each spring the lowly Yardlings let loose before finals...