Word: crashingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Crash. There was only one break in this pastoral routine. This week, Harold Stassen flew to Flat Top, W. Va., for a long-planned engagement to address the reunion of the famed Lilly family.* Standing on windswept Flat Top Mountain, he told thousands of Lillyans of his interview last spring with Generalissimo Stalin in the Kremlin. He said Stalin asked him if he expected an economic crash in the U.S. and that he replied: "No, I am confident that we have found the way to improve our system of government. We are determined to find a way to bring prices...
...dance. Word went up from the Führerbunker to make less noise. At 3:30 p.m., Hitler and Eva Braun committed suicide, he by shooting, she with poison; their bodies were carried outside to the garden and burned. It was a horse-opera Liebestod, enacted to the crash of Russian shells and robbed of its Wagnerian grandeur by a curious anticlimax: those remaining in the bunker lit up cigarets. "During Hitler's lifetime that had been absolutely forbidden; but now the headmaster had gone and the boys could break the rules...
Economists assured him that, barring the possibility of wholesale strikes, things would be all right, that there might be a little recession first, but it was not likely to turn into a real crash...
...Some charter airlines carry Puerto Ricans back to San Juan for as little as $37.50 a head. The fare on scheduled airlines: $130. A fortnight ago, a Civil Aeronautics Board hearing found that the converted C-47 transport which carried 21 to death in a Florida crash (TIME, July 21) had been overloaded by about one ton of Puerto Ricans and their baggage. Aboard when the plane crashed were 36 people...
...what he buys will soon be outdated. His main problem is what to do with yesterday's "moderns." He doesn't want the Tate to be cluttered up with them. Rothenstein's fond hope: that some of his modern paintings will eventually be good enough to crash the National Gallery, as Sir Henry Tate's original collection...