Word: crashingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...thousands of French mothers with votes. On the other hand, talk of negotiations with "the murderers of French women and children" would antagonize thousands of others. For eight hours the Cabinet debated and argued. Lacoste at one point resigned, then was persuaded to reconsider. Finally Mollet compromised on a crash economic program of $70 million and the dispatch of 50,000 troops. These could be obtained without any special call-ups by robbing France's already skeletonized NATO forces. General Augustin Guillaume, chief of the French general staff, who as Morocco's Resident General dethroned Sultan Ben Youssef...
...devoted believer in Germany's partnership in the West, has no use for Free Democratic Leader Thomas Dehler's talk of bargaining with Russia for German unity. The struggle was short and sharp. At week's end, the Free Democratic Party split with a grinding crash of rhetoric and recrimination. Dehler and his remaining 33 Deputies surlily went into opposition. The 14 other ex-Free Democrats announced they would form a new German People's Party loyal to Adenauer. The old man had done better than anyone expected, even though ahead lay new dangers of fragmentation...
...Washington last week on a project involving $80 million. He had 15 minutes to make his pitch to the Pentagon. I want to be sure that he knows how to make a sale"). In Texas airmen struggled through an obstacle course on which the final assignment, an exercise in crash rescue, was to lift a heavy stone from a burning cockpit. In Labrador airmen fed the dog teams used for rescue work. And off West Palm Beach, Fla. an Air Force crash boat pulled a pilot from the drink. When his engine flamed out, he had radioed...
...biggest news event in Latin America last year made jittery reading for the hemisphere's military strongmen. The crash of Argentina's Juan Peron showed with unnerving clarity how swiftly the most deeply entrenched tyrant can be destroyed by aroused public opinion and disenchanted military leaders. By last week strongman regimes in four other nations were showing signs of strain...
...operational radio equipment, but it was flyable-and bush pilots earn their extra dollars by taking risks. Dahl took the job and was only minutes away from his destination when the old bucket gave up the battle and went down in the Quebec wilderness. One man survived the crash, but Whitey Dahl, all luck spent at last, was found dead at the controls...