Word: crashingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sitting at the piano when Imogene burst in. The Kovacs brothers were a little startled. She demanded to know what they were doing there Al said: "I'm waiting for Faith," and walked toward the stairway. As James Kovacs remembered it later, there was the crash of a shot and Al dropped. Imogene fired two more shots. Then she demanded: "Now will you leave...
Ernest Hemingway, who tore his scalp open (52 stitches) in an auto crash in Britain last year, fared better when his car skidded on a wet curve outside Havana, piled up in a ditch. Added to the rich Hemingway collection of nicks. lumps, and bruises†: forehead scratches and a sore knee...
About 2% of adults are somnambulists (the affliction is more common in childhood and adolescence, but many get over it). As somnambulism is not a cause for Army rejection, many a snoring barracks-ful of G.I.s has been waked by the crash of a sleeper stumbling over a foot locker. At Camp Lee, Va., Lieut. Colonel Samuel A. Sandier has discovered and interviewed 22 somnambulists ("which ... we believe to be the largest number of cases so far studied"). His report in Mental Hygiene last week clearly demonstrates the connection between somnambulism and neurosis...
...Japanese suicide planes crash-dived the destroyer off Okinawa. A bomb jammed the rudder, and the ship heeled in a sitting-duck circle. Flaming gasoline billowed over the decks, burning gunners strapped to their seats. Said Commander Frederick J. Becton: "I'll never abandon ship as long as a gun will fire...
...remained to be seen how much of their gains the Chinese could hold. But to China, after eight years of unrelieved defeat and retreat, the battle news last week came like the crash of a victory gong...