Word: crashing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...jets from the big Danang airbase 375 miles north of Saigon plastered a major guerrilla staging and communications center at Vinhlinh, five miles north of the 17th parallel. Leading the Vietnamese wave was South Viet Nam's Vice Air Marshal Nguyen Cao Ky, resplendent in a white crash helmet streaked with orange, a violet scarf and a black flying suit. Ky's plane took four hits, and he himself was grazed by shrapnel. Despite heavy ground fire, only one plane was lost; the pilot was rescued...
...Flotsam. Fifteen ships plowed through calm, moonlit seas near the crash scene, and soon eleven helicopters skimmed low over the surface. They dropped flares, illuminated the area with floodlights, held rescue divers at the ready to plunge into the icy water should there be any sign of survivors. There was none...
...converting it to a dormitory-style lodge with private's rooms. They raised the capital through savings, friends, banks and notes from local businessmen. As late as Nov. 30, they were still spending every free hour they had to tend to the many frustrating details that develop when a "crash" building project is undertaken...
...Britisher invented the bobsled. In 1890, Wilson Smith nailed two toboggans together and invited three friends along for a hair-raising ride down a mountain at St. Moritz. Capital idea, decided the Italians, the Swiss and the Americans, who added steel runners, steering wheels, crash helmets, specially constructed bobsled runs, speeds up to 90 m.p.h.-and took turns dominating the sport. The U.S. won five championships in the 1930s and '40s, and Italy's great steersman, Eugenic Monti, led his team to eight world titles (both two-man and four-man) in seven years...
Better Stocks. Good business news seems to be having a particularly strong impact upon the small investors who buy in "odd lots" of fewer than 100 shares. For the first time since they were badly singed in the 1962 crash, they are beginning to re-enter the market in significant numbers. On almost every trading day this year, odd-lots investors have bought more shares than they sold. And they are not investing in cheap stocks: the average stock bought in an odd lot now costs $52 v. $39 for the average share bought in round lots...