Word: crashingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fortune is reckoned at more than $200 million. He became general manager of the huge Fore River shipbuilding yard at Quincy during World War I, joined the investment banking house of Hayden, Stone & Co., sold short and made $15 million in a few hours during the market crash of 1929, served as chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission (1934-35) and the U.S. Maritime Commission (1937)-and was U.S. Ambassador to Great Britain during the ominous years...
Kennedy was still in the hospital when he learned that his older brother, Joe Kennedy Jr., had been killed on a bomber raid against German V-2 installations in Normandy (a sister, Kathleen-"Kick"-Kennedy, the Marchioness of Hartington, was killed in an air crash in France in 1948). Invalided out of the Navy, Jack Kennedy hooked up with International News Service, covered the San Francisco founding session of the United Nations and the Potsdam conference-and decided to run for the Massachusetts Eleventh District congressional seat being vacated by indestructible James Michael Curley, who had just been elected mayor...
...enough. These seem to aim at short-term panaceas to catch up with the Russians. James E. Allen Jr., New York State Commissioner of Education, said that although he was "definitely concerned about the Soviet threat," he was "disturbed as well by the emphasis in Washington on a crash program in science and mathematics." An overemphasis on science and mathematics can result in an exclusion of other necessary fields...
...great crash, a cloud of smoke, and the crowd dispersed. Hizzoner sped off in a shiny new Chrysler. "They just made it," our speculator friend grumbled. "Good show," commented a departing observer...
...thigh bone. Hobbling about on crutches, he still had the will to conduct but not the strength to stand up while doing it. Sitting on the podium before orchestras, he showed his old relentless temperament. One day, while conducting Don Giovanni in Cologne, he was so moved at the crash of trombone chords announcing the arrival of the statue for dinner with the Don that Klemperer spontaneously stood up and once again began conducting from his feet. He does not use a baton, and when a musician once complained about it, Klemperer shouted, "I cannot hold a baton. Nor could...