Word: crashingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pass the Claret. Transfusion, which is punctuated at regular intervals by the screech of tires and a deafening crash, tells the adventures of a crazed driver who cracks up repeatedly and requires countless pints of blood...
...CRASH Transfusion, transfusion My red corpsuckles are in mass confusion, I'm never, never, never gonna speed again...
...likely to be a penguin? Last week non-airmen could find the answer to that question (no) in a special 16,500-word dictionary of fly-talk put out by the Air University. The Air Force not only makes up words and phrases (e.g., brain bucket for crash helmet, raunchy for sloppy, zorch for excellent); it also uses ordinary words in some peculiar ways. Samples...
Farm-as in "to buy a farm," to crash...
...Edwards Air Force Base at California's Muroc Dry Lake when the husky, dark-browed test pilot chugged up to the flight line in a battered model A Ford coupe. Lieut. Colonel Frank K. Everest Jr., 35, wiggled into his girdle-tight high-altitude suit, picked up his crash helmet and headed for the runway where a four-engined B50 waited. Clamped tight to the B-50's fat belly was "Pete" Everest's aircraft-a sleek, needle-nosed little job with "Bell X2" painted on its sides...