Word: crashingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mortally injured the driver and spread burns over 90% of Richard's body. Since then, the badly scarred teenager has undergone more than 50 operations. When the case went before a Santa Ana, Calif., jury six months ago, the plaintiffs charged that even though Ford's own crash testing had revealed weakness in Pinto gas tanks and excessive gas leakage, the company chose not to spend the $10 per car it would have taken to correct those faults. Last week the jury socked Ford with a $128.5 million verdict: $666,280 to the dead driver's family...
...Monty was no longer up to challenges of any kind. Sometime during the early '50s, at the very moment of his triumph, he became addicted to drink and drugs. After a catastrophic Hollywood car crash in 1956, which left his face an awkward mask, his decline became a slide. Bosworth seems to pin much of the problem on guilt over his homosexuality - or bisexuality, as she maintains it was - but the evidence is totally unpersuasive. Good as her book is, it offers no real reason for Monty's down fall, which was as mysterious as his talent...
...South African government defaults on its loans, producing a financial crash on Wall Street. David Rockefeller is caught trying to smuggle 20,000 krugerrands through customs on his way to the Bahamas...
After the disaster, the victims' bodies were put in rubber bags, removed from the crash site aboard a railroad boxcar and brought back to Evansville. Next morning some 1,500 students crammed into the university chapel for eulogies and prayers. On Sunday fans paid their last respects to the team at a memorial service in Roberts Stadium. The rest of the basketball season has been canceled. Said Junior Rory Hennings, 20, a close friend of four players who died: "I hadn't gotten to see them play this year because I was working the night of the only...
Although the area around the tip of South Africa has some of the globe's busiest sea lanes, through which tankers haul about 90% of the oil heading westward from the Persian Gulf, the modern navigation equipment aboard the ships should have prevented the crash. One South African official speculated that the vessels had closed in deliberately to allow their crewmen to exchange greetings. If that was true, he said, the crash of the supertankers was surely "the world's most expensive handshake...