Word: crashingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wilbur had worked as a team since they were boys. Sons of a United Brethren bishop (there were two other brothers and a sister), they liked to make things for themselves. They quit high school and opened a bicycle shop. In 1896, they read about the fatal crash of Otto Lilienthal, a German scientist who had been experimenting with gliders. They sent to the Smithsonian 'Institution for all the information there was on flying (there wasn't much), and asked the Weather Bureau to recommend a place where the wind blew steady and strong over unobstructed ground...
Wives & Machines. The rush of aerial development passed Orville. He built himself a laboratory in Dayton, spent his time puttering in it. After 1918 he rarely flew. He had fractured a hip in an early crash, and any vibration caused him excruciating pain. Occasionally an aircraft company asked his advice. He still loved to build gadgets-a rolling roof and self-opening doors for his summer lodge in Canada, an automatic record-changer, a line of mechanical toys which his brother Lorin manufactured. He lived alone-neither he nor Wilbur ever married. Said Orville: "You can't support...
Three University economists have refused to see either the end of the current inflationary period or the beginning of a crash as the result of the downward skid in stock and commodity markets, although they universally declare themselves "unable to make any definite predictions...
...aboard her to sign their surrender to General Dwight Eisenhower. The "Nellie's" captain, A. H. Maxwell-Hyslop, likes to tell a yarn about an engagement off Normandy. "I had gone to bed one night after two or three nights without sleep," he relates. "There was a frightful crash and I ran on deck, thinking of a robot bomb. But a landing craft, filled with newspaper reporters and, I think, steered by one of them, had smashed into us. They dented...
Perilous No. 16. Even Ben Hogan's iron jaw rattled at the sight of it. The tee is a rocky promontory jutting out into the Pacific Ocean. The next sight of land is another rocky promontory 192 yards down the California coast; in between, foaming breakers crash distractingly on the rocks. Hogan, no man to let salt water scare him, promptly overdrove the green; several of his fellow pros-including Jimmy Thomson and Ralph Hutchinson-dunked their first ball into the ocean...