Word: crashing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...whites are only too conscious of the ability of young Tom Mboya. It is at the second and third levels of leadership that the nationalist movements lack strength. One result is that even the most Western-minded of the African politicians feel that they are operating under crash conditions, and freedom in Africa does not necessarily promise democracy. One Nigerian said to me: "You in America get into a war, and you don't have much democracy either...
Tower of Hope. World War II's crash programs on many scientific fronts brought Dr. Rhoads to another conclusion unpopular in medical circles: a frontal attack on cancer, with experts in a dozen sciences working toward the same goal, should pay off faster than the traditional uncoordinated approach of peacetime. In General Motors' Boss Alfred P. Sloan Jr. he found a kindred spirit. Sloan put up the first $4,000,000, laid the foundations for the Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research-a 14-story tower of hope beside Memorial Hospital. Rhoads was its director...
Texas, piled up a modest fortune-and lost all but $29.30 in the 1929 market crash. (He and his wife spent what was left on a night...
Burns over Bone. Behind the wheels in crash helmets were the drivers, a peculiar breed willing to pay the price for loving danger. There was Bill Stead, 34, a Nevada rancher with a cowpoke's windburned face, whose legs and arms bear unhealed burns as souvenirs of a wild ride last March when his Maverick blew up at 175 m.p.h. on Lake Mead. Stead had coolly stuck to the boat: "Burns hurt a little more, but I'd rather have them than broken bones, and I've had both...
...clubs. Years later, with the hourglass of fortune reversed, Fred needs work and Clayton is an advertising bigwig. At a sanctimonious lunch full of bogus bonhomie, Clayton offers Fred no job. and all but admits that one of his greatest pleasures is watching the mighty campus idols of old crash at his well-shod feet...