Word: crashingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...held Rabaul. "We dropped our bombs on the runway and machine-gunned two bombers on the ground," said 2nd Lieut. Eugene D. Wallace of Los Angeles, the plane's copilot. "Antiaircraft fire was awfully heavy and ... we were hit. . . . The pilot said we would have to make a crash landing...
...much R.A.F. slang will seep into the dictionary is a lexicographer's guess, but some of its catchier terms have already been adopted by groundlings. Among thousands of Americans, "browned off" already means fed up. ("Brassed off" means very fed up and "cheesed off" is utterly disgusted.) To crash is to "prang." To take a "dim view" is to look upon skeptically...
Into the New Deal. When the crash came, Morgan joined with other bankers to stem the tide. A $240,000,000 pool was formed to bolster the market-a gesture which failed. "There is no man nor group of men," said the top-ranking Morgan partner, realistic Thomas W. Lament, "who can buy all the stocks that the American public can sell." The market crashed on down. In 1933 came the New Deal, and with it the campaign against "princes of privilege" and "economic royalists...
Wall Street also remembers that the last time the little fellow came into the market in a big way was when he went broke in the '29 crash-and learned to hate "the interests." The Street would like to see him spend his war earnings on real values this time. But the main significance of the bargain boom was that lots of people were willing to bet good money that the U.S. Government could not check inflation...
...commentators have the personal get-up-&-go which led Lewis to crash the sacrosanct Capitol press galleries in 1939. Thanks to him, radio reporters are now regularly present in Congress. Accusations that his reporting is "destructive" distress him. He says he is just using radio to cut red tape. When he is in town, his plush office at WOL is a loud and tangy chatterbox. The clatter-chatter was finally too much for the female occupant of the adjoining office. While the commentator was on tour, arrangements were rushed to equip his office with a soundproof door...