Word: crashing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...outbreaks of violence occurred when about a dozen black militants, joined by other anti-war demonstrators attempted to crash the northwest gate of the White House. The protesters were quickly routed as U.S. park police arrested five. A fist-swinging melee developed as anti-Moratorium picketers attacked the protest-in Congress the halls were relatively quiet as many of the members spent the day speaking to Moratorium crowds across the nation. Anti-war Representatives were blocked in their efforts to keep the House in session all Tuesday night...
...goes back to the bar "even with all the warnings that I should stay away/... that I'd have my own crisis." He has it, it's a crash, a nervous wreck, but nothing is explained, perhaps because "Buddha giggles/whenever I sit down/to play the typewriter.../his cackling disturbs/my meditations...
...crash program to improve conditioning and precision paid off for Harvard's rugby team last Saturday, as it outplayed favored Brown for the entire first half and most of the second...
...People (ABC) is another attempt to reach the young by Mod Squad Executive Producer Aaron Spelling, 47. A planeload of 40 touring American students was somehow blown off course, crash-landed on an isolated mid-Pacific island and, in the process, lost its radio and any hope of ever returning to civilization. So the kids, stereotypes to a man (one militant black, one racist white Southerner, one rebellious daughter of a Senator) have to create their own world in a sort of college-age Lord of the Flies. In the opener, they played Hobbes with themselves and plausibility. The life...
Curiously, yet another ABC première last week, Movie of the Week, led off with a plane crash. In this one, seven blind people survived, only to be done in by the tricky, pseudopsychological script. That disaster may or may not have been a harbinger of ABC's remaining 24 movies of the week, since they will come from many different producers. Generally, they will run cheaper (all 25 cost $16 million) and shorter (80 minutes without commercials) than conventional features. Films specially made for TV can develop into series, witness last season's Then Came Bronson...