Word: crashingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...huge green waves, lashed by some abysmal fury, reared up and blotted the sky from view. They seemed about to crash into the quiet, pleasant room, threatening to shatter the fragile decor, engulf the politely conversing statesmen...
...crash land with the Boston Yanks deep down in the sub-cellar...
...commodity prices, which have risen sky-high in the last six years, cracked last week. Down, with a resounding crash, tumbled King Cotton. On Tuesday cotton futures fell as much as $2.05 a bale. Next day they flopped $10 a bale, the maximum under exchange rules. In the next two days, prices continued to plummet, $10 a day. On Saturday, the panicky New York Cotton Exchange closed. Chicago and New Orleans followed suit...
...worst crash in the history of U.S. commercial aviation...
Faced with these cold facts, money-losing corporations, which had kept payrolls fat in hopes that peak production would pull them out of the red, now began to think about trimming. After the stockmarket crash, Wall Streeters had predicted that many a businessman would start using the ugly word "retrenchment" instead of expansion. Last week, in one of the country's key industries, at least, it looked as if the retrenchment had started...