Word: crashing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...roles as player, coach, manager and even broadcaster, Frisch was one of those winning wild men who could make spectators believe that some great drama of life was being played out for their benefit. When he died last week at 74, five weeks after an auto crash near Elkton, Md., he had been out of baseball for more than 16 years, but as far as addicts of the sport were concerned, he never really left...
...Crash Program. The main source of Detroit's troubles is the internal combustion engine. Although safe, reliable and easily maintained, it spews out at least three noxious gases. The Clean Air Act, which is mostly concerned with public health, specifies that the emissions of two-carbon monoxide and hydrocarbons-be cut 90% of 1970-model levels in 1975-model cars, and orders the same decrease in nitrogen oxides in 1976 models. Moreover, the automakers must guarantee the emission controls for 50,000 miles...
...year-old Pittsburgh Pirates outfielder, generally acclaimed as one of the best baseball players of all time, died last New Year's Eve in a plane crash off the shore of his native Puerto Rico...
...full flight down an Alp's snowy flank, Austria's Annemarie Proell resembles nothing so much as a controlled crash about to happen. Feet well apart, arms locked to her thighs, in an awkward-looking squat that offends purists, she rockets out of the starting gate toward the first turn. Her motives for that all-out start are direct: "I try to risk as much as possible in the first few gates," she says. "It makes the competition nervous-I know they watch...
...choices on the registration checklist are: "I'm impecunious. Can you call me and let's talk about deferring the registration [fee] until my finances are better?" and "I will need housing at good ole Harvard. I'll need some place to crash [pick a night]." Or, for humor, "I'll be arriving by plane, bus, train or sailboat and will need to be picked...