Word: crashingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Everybody in a whole cell block Was dancing to the jailhouse rock . . . [Mumble, mumble] crash, boom, bang, The whole rhythm section was a purple gang...
...news of education, art, music and science. It plunged eagerly into controversies over Darwin and Al Smith, published William James's eloquent plea for world government ten years before World War I, exposed Stock Exchange malpractices in 1926 that were not banned by law until after the crash. Unlike most "quality" magazines, the Atlantic today aims at giving the reader a well-rounded view of the month's events as well as the standard quota of articles and criticism...
...forced to his knees at the foot of a murderer who mysteriously may be his alter ego; in Echoes, a prima donna finds her lost voice only to lose all hope of using it. The characters are large, heroic figures and they are brought to earth with a resounding crash. Such men and women are rare in contemporary fiction; the art to make them live vitally -as Author Dinesen does-is rarer still...
...barrio, and on every city street corner, the name of Ramon Magsaysay rang across the Philippines last week. Election day was only four weeks off, and every presidential and congressional candidate was busily trying to identify himself with the late great President, who was killed in an airplane crash only seven months ago. "Keep faith with Magsaysay!" cried the Nacionalistas of President Carlos P. Garcia, the smooth, shrewd politician who succeeded to the presidency on Magsaysay's death. "Magsaysay was our guy; now Yulo is our Magsaysay," proclaimed the Liberals, ignoring the fact that Ramon Magsaysay deserted them...
Died. Carlos Llamas Romulo, 32, Georgetown University-educated Manila lawyer, World War II hero, eldest son of General Carlos P. Romulo, Philippine Ambassador to the U.S. and delegate to the U.N.; in a plane crash south of Manila...