Word: crashingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...there has been more than the usual amount of Georgia accent and baseball talk around the diamonds of Soldiers Field of late, it is due to the presence of Lawrence "Crash" Davis, former major league ball player, and present B team baseball coach...
...just didn't get the pitching," said "Crash," in referring to the poor finishes his club made in '40 and '41, "but we had a great outfield--Chapman, Moses, and Johnson." Johnson especially rates high praise, for according to the Chief, "Bob Johnson is one of the greatest competitive ball players in the league." Davis also lauded veteran Al Simmons, grateful for the helpful pointers he gave...
...hardly necessary to ask a former Athletic who the greatest manager baseball is. "Crash" left no doubt at his decision: "Connie Mack is a great fellow--just like a father to his ball players. He's a mental and physical phenomenon--just as alert as you or I despite...
...Normandy last week Colonel General Friedrich Dollmann, commander of the German Seventh Army, was killed-possibly by specially briefed Allied dive bombers. Colonel General Eduard Dietl, commander of Germany's seven divisions in Finland, was killed somewhere in an air crash, apparently in Finnish Lapland (although some reports said Austria). Russia's netful of captives for the week included a General Gollwitz, commanding the 53rd Army Corps...
...bomber crash near the Continental Divide in Colorado, four of the ten-man crew had been killed. Two survivors, less seriously injured, had walked 14 hours before they found help. Soon a bomber, with an Army doctor aboard, was on its way to the rocky ledge where the four injured men lay. The doctor first dropped a parachute load of supplies from the circling bomber, then jumped himself. He landed in a tree, fell 20 ft., but scrambled up unhurt. When the main rescue party arrived (by land) nearly four hours later, the patients had been fed, bandaged, drugged...