Word: crashing
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...course, there was also the helicopter crash, the embezzlement convictions and the publishing of The Bell Curve, a controversial book by a Harvard professor and a graduate of the College...
...bank robbery and helicopter crash almost seem like strange echoes or precursors of a new boldness in senseless crime and disaster, striking where previously such things were though impossible--on American soil at the World Trade Center and in Oklahoma City; even repeatedly at the White House...
Briggs-Copeland Lecturer on English and American Literatue and Language Jill McCorkle also recently published a collection of stories in a book titled "Crash Diet." McCorkle, too, publishes reviews in the Times' Sunday book section...
...helicopter's side door had been open for all of three seconds when O'Grady tumbled across its threshold. He relinquished his 9-mm Beretta pistol to the crew and pulled on Berndt's Gore-Tex parka and a crash helmet. "I'll never forget the look on his face as he was running toward our aircraft," said Berndt. "He had this pistol in his right hand -- looking like he had been in the field trying to survive for six days, and knowing we were there to pull him out." Nobody, Berndt added somewhat incredulously, "even got off our helicopter...
Your article on U.S. air force safety and charges of cover-ups in crash probes, "Way,Way Off in the Wild Blue Yonder" [THE MILITARY, May 29], was right on. In 1986, when I was stationed at Washington State's Fairchild Air Force Base, a KC-135A aircraft crashed. As in the case of the June 1994 crash you described, this plane was practicing for an air show. The casualties might have been far greater than the six who were killed: the plane crashed into a field surrounded on three sides by maintenance buildings, near liquid oxygen-service areas...