Word: crashingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fred Kreiger, band director, and also editor, printer and advertising salesman of the Boise City News, had had a hard day at the print shop. He got to bed after midnight. Fred heard the drone of a plane, a whistle, a crash, an explosion. He pulled on his britches and ran for the street. Said he: "My first thought was an enemy plane. Then I thought, why in heck. . . ? After I saw how deep the bombs bored into the pavement, I was glad I hadn't hid under that big paper cutter at the office...
After Polish Premier Wladyslaw Sikorski met death in a plane crash (TIME, July 12), Soviet Russia's official Izvestia had good things to say of him. The late Polish Premier and Commander in Chief "understood and appreciated the full significance of the struggle of the Soviet Union against Germany, for the common cause of all freedom-loving peoples." It was to be regretted that Sikorski's "desire for a strengthening of the friendship and collaboration between Russia and Poland was frustrated...
Parachuting down from a dogfight and head-on crash in the Guadalcanal sector, Lieut. Henry E. Matson opened his eyes and said: "Safe at last." Then...
...this, the Japanese stopped shooting. Lieut. Matson hit the water, inflated his rubber raft, climbed aboard it, covered himself with his parachute, went to sleep. An hour later, a crash boat rescued...
Died. Major Victor Alexander Cazalet, 46, Unionist M.P. from Chippenham since 1924, onetime British squash racquets champion, political liaison officer to Premier of the Polish Government in exile, General Wladyslaw Sikorski; in their bomber's crash at Gibraltar...