Word: crashing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Houston session, when a take went well, Sherrill quoted the Bible: "And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God." But when the drummer spoiled a quiet ending by descending with a crash, Sherrill swore: "Goddam!" He then signaled a halt and went to his office to telephone his wife. "We'll be dubbing tonight," he told her. "Dave Houston can sing better than that. I'm going to get him a double Scotch and some food, then strip his voice out of there, put some headphones on him and record that...
Equally harebrained was a scheme for a kamikaze pilot to crash a small private plane into the French President's helicopter. While circling over Algeria's Blida Airport in anticipation of De Gaulle's departure, the pilot was dismayed to see that a swarm of helicopters had taken off at once. There was no way of knowing which one De Gaulle was in (French security forces routinely used dummy planes and juggled limousines as a precaution...
...Bryn [Evensen] was very consistent--he wasn't right at the top, but he didn't crash much," Carter said. Evensen beat World Cup skier Roland Thoeni of Italy in the Kandahar of the Andes downhill race. Thoeni's cousin, Gustavo Thoeni, was the World Cup ski champion last year...
...also continued to devour American League pitching. He hit his record 60 in 1927, 54 more in 1928 and then, after the stock-market crash in 1929, held out for what seemed to be a stupendous salary: $80,000. He was counseled against the move by a sportswriter whose principal argument was that President Herbert Hoover was only making $75,000. With irrefutable logic, Ruth replied, "Yeah, but I had a better year than...
...Company Dan Dailey is an ex-con who, after 28 years in a South American jail, is slated to battle future shock as well as his crooked quarry. ABC even has an ex-human: Lee Majors as The Six Million Dollar Man, rebuilt after a near-fatal plane crash into a cyborg (cybernetic organism, that is, with two legs, one arm and one eye that are nuclear-powered synthetics...