Word: crashingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...officer's pinks and forest-green shirt he wore the most dazzling decorations (the Distinguished Flying Cross, the Purple Heart). He had lived through the most spine-tingling experiences imaginable, on all possible battlefronts (strafing Nazi tanks in North Africa, being rescued by the French underground after a crash landing in occupied Europe, shooting it out with Jap Zeros over the South Pacific). When red-haired young Holdeman spoke at war-bond rallies in Booneville, Tupelo, Okolona and a dozen other towns, women sobbed openly and strong men rose en masse to subscribe the limit. He was the best...
Died. J. William Ditter, 55, Republican National Congressional Committee Chairman since 1939, able party strategist. Pennsylvania Representative (the 17th District) since 1933; in the crash of a naval plane; near Columbia...
Killed on Duty. Pamela Barton, 26, British Women's Auxiliary Air Force flight officer, onetime U.S. Women's National Amateur golf champion (1936), British Open champion (1936, 1939); in the crash of a Royal Air Force plane; in Kent, England...
What actually kills a man in an airplane crash? In some cases the cause of death may be his own internal organs. Reason: the impact turns them into internal missiles. So reported an Army doctor (Captain George Marvin Hass of the Army Air Forces School of Aviation Medicine at Randolph Field, Texas) last fortnight to the Aero Medical Association's meeting at Cincinnati...
...Many a crash victim, said Captain Hass, has been picked up with a few broken bones and no obviously dangerous injury. Later he has sickened and died from internal damage of which his doctors were unaware. Lethal internal blows may also be dealt not by the impact of internal organs themselves, but by food in the stomach, urine in the bladder, blood in a chamber of a man's heart. Captain Hass said that if doctors had known of these crash effects in the past, many victims could have been diagnosed in time to save their lives by simple...