Word: crashingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Allen Hynek, director of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, last night refused to verify a report that the rocket of Sputnik I would crash to earth sometime today...
...Jackson (D-Wash.) said a tax increase may be necessary to provide money for a greatly increased military program including missiles and nuclear devices. Jackson, who heads the weapons subcommittee of the Senate-House Atomic Energy Committee, said the United States should begin at once a crash program for construction of 100 or more atomic-powered submarines...
...Wyeth was an illustrator; for decades before his death in an auto crash in 1945, he was the best illustrator in the country. An age that tends to value "composition" (meaning, roughly, an apparent rhythm, repetition and balance of lines and colors, comparable to harmonious music) above all else tends to belittle illustration (which subordinates all other values to imaginative drama). Yet, historically, illustration is half of art, and the greatest paintings of Europe have been illustrations of classical mythology and the New Testament...
BRITANNIA CRASH, which killed all 15 of test crew aboard prototype of medium-range model, darkens future of Britain's big commercial turboprop. Cause of disaster is still a mystery, and drawn-out investigation on top of previous production delays (TIME, Sept. 23) is bound to discourage buyers...
...Market Crash. In San Bernardino, Calif., as he and a sheriff's officer chased a burglar through his supermarket, Owner Charles R. Barmlett drew a careful bead on the thief, fired his revolver, wounded the deputy in the thigh...