Word: crashingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...raise. Then four independent New York unions settled for the same figure and went back through N.F.T.W. picket lines. When N.F.T.W. President Joe Beirne conceded the end of his hopes for an industry-wide settlement and disbanded his National Policy Committee, the 30-day walkout collapsed with a resounding crash...
...sure what had happened. The light-keeper thought at first that the explosions had come before the crash. Then he was not so sure. T.W.A. officials guessed from the shape and position of the wreckage that the low-flying Connie had caught a wingtip in the water, said it had plunged into the bay and then exploded. Whatever the cause, it was the sixth misadventure (TIME, July 22 et seq.) on the jinx-ridden Connies' ill-starred record...
When an economy-minded Congress lopped off a ponderous $83 million from the Interior Department's Bureau of Reclamation, the resulting crash echoed throughout the West like the crash of a felled Sequoia. Four Republican, four Democratic governors of California, Colorado, Wyoming, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Utah and Washington rushed to Seattle's Olympic Hotel to take counsel. Arizona and Nevada sent representatives...
...third period began with the crash of 1929 and the return of chaos. The German mind-and the German screen-once more became a battleground. But most of the battling was equivocal, half-blind, halfhearted-or forbidden by censors. And none of it stopped Hitler...
...airplane were flying directly toward a vertical cliff well over 2.000 ft. high with no foothills. But according to Hughes the U.S. has no such cliffs that an airplane can smash into. The foothills or lower slopes of most mountains should give warning in ample time to avoid a crash...