Word: crashing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Crash spending, however, can do little to mitigate the psychological strains created by this latest ally ah (immigration wave). "These Russians," says Minister of Immigrant Absorption Nathan Peled, who came to Israel from Russia 39 years ago, "come with high potential. But before they realize it, they must come to terms with a new kind of society that has its rich and poor, primitive and highly cultured, socialist and capitalist, religious and secular." Most of the immigrants, for instance, are totally baffled by such routine fiscal necessities as checking accounts and bank loans. Accustomed to scarcity, they are suspicious...
...Ibiza, he finished his first novel, On a Darkling Plain, which was published in 1956. Since then he has produced three more novels. His nonfiction works were notable for their inaccuracies. His first marriage was annulled; his second wife died in a car crash in 1959, and he divorced his third wife, a London model, in 1965. Four years ago, Irving married Edith Sommer, a Swiss divorcee whose first husband, she says, was a German businessman and something of a "stiff...
However, soon after DePriest's election, the economic collapse following the Stock Market Crash threatened the Republican party with political bankruptcy. The mass of black voters brought up in the tradition of total support of the Republican ticket found it hard to break the habit. In the election of '32 only 23 per cent of Chicago's blacks voted for Roosevelt...
Into Nevada. Hughes was seriously injured in three plane crashes, the last and worst in 1946, when he was test-piloting the twin-engine XF11. One of its huge, counterrotating propellers froze. He brought the plane to a crash landing next to a Los Angeles country club. His chest was crushed and doctors doubted that he would live. The aftereffects of those crashes have been blamed for his later reclusiveness. He first grew a mustache while recovering from the XF-11 crash because the burns he had suffered made shaving painful. For all his feats. Hughes is regarded...
...dream was over, music was de-politicized, and according to the media, students became either wonks or Jesus freaks. At concerts, the widespread occurrence of antisocial behavior, pseudo-radical disruption, and hostility toward performers seemed to reflect the pain of abandoning an essentially delusional relationship with popular music. The crash was an inevitable reaction, encouraged by many stars who combined a renewed emphasis on pure entertainment with a more frankly derivative approach...