Word: crashing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Crash Reports...
Moreover, much of what irritates modern man is simply new noise traded in for old. The ear that flinches at the diesel blat of a bus might recoil as much from the clang-rattle-crash of the old trolley. The whine of rubber tires replaces the bang and screech of unsprung cartwheels on cobblestones; the backfire supplants the ringing hooves of dray horses...
...shattered Japanese air force was able to supply the pilots were obsolete, Type 97 fixed-landing-gear crates in bad repair. Three of the pilots did eventually get off on Kamikaze missions. But one by one, the other nine on the flight from Ozuki were forced to ditch or crash-land. Except for one pilot who died in a crash, they were still waiting for replacement aircraft when the war ended three months later...
...Wall Street word, bears) who in their most nervous moments may conjure up images of 1929, when stock values almost overnight plummeted by 50%. To talk about 1966 in 1929 phrases is to compare Gemini 10 to the tin lizzie. At the time of the Crash, a mere 1,371,920 people were, as the saying went, "playing the market." Most of these were either professional speculators or amateur gamblers who might have done better at the $2 window at the nearest race track. Today, corporate ownership through shareholding is the warp and woof of American life. Some...
...where a prop man's shell misfired. One Sunday at the Deauville school where their young children board, the widow (Anouk Aimée) meets a handsome widower (Jean-Louis Trintignant), a racing driver whose wife impulsively committed suicide, thinking that he had been killed in a crash at Le Mans...