Word: crashing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that air bags can be lethal to children who aren't wearing seat belts. "This is not a false alarm," reports TIME's William McWhirter. "These airbags pack quite a wallop. Small children who aren't strapped in are very vulnerable to trauma from the impact of both the crash and the airbag. Common sense should tell parents to keep children out of the front seat, anyway." The NHTSA is investigating the car accident deaths of six children - ages four to nine - to see if their injuries were caused by inflating air bags. The agency has drafted a 200-page...
...encounter with his Aunt Harriet/Sister Arabella/Lidia, charges his father for sexual services and battles for his manhood with his mother. Presiding over all this is the dotty Captain (Eric E. Amblad '98) who wears a rubber dildo on his head and whose utter incompetence is responsible for the fatal crash of the ship...
...Sunset Limited was en route from Miami to Los Angeles with 268 people aboard when it derailed in the middle of the night on a remote stretch of track in Arizona. The casualties: one crew member dead, a hundred people injured. Evidence quickly led investigators to pronounce the crash no accident: two rails were found to have been deliberately uncoupled; and a message was found at the crash site from the so-called Sons of the Gestapo--a previously unknown group--that assailed the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, as well as the agencies' roles...
Gerald Uelmen, the Santa Clara University law dean who served on the O.J. team, agrees that the trial was a much needed crash course in Fourth Amendment rights. "I think there's just a sense out there of, 'I'm never going to be charged in a criminal case, so what the hell should I care if the police go over my wall and search without a warrant?' I think we've got a job to do in terms of convincing people that we really are all winners when that system is respected." Peter Barnett of Forensic Science Associates...
...Keaton the end came abruptly, sadly, in the late '20s. His producer, who was also his brother-in-law, sold him out, literally, to MGM, and Keaton lost control of his films. It was a crash that led to pained obscurity--as second banana to Jimmy Durante, gag writer for Red Skelton, waxwork to Gloria Swanson in Sunset Blvd., cracked mirror image to Chaplin in the 1952 Limelight. Keaton died at 70 in 1966. He never got to savor the happy ending that film history had planned: the rediscovery and restoration of his films, the flabbergasted smiles of today...