Word: crashingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...terrible cycle of family tragedies shattered whatever strength Joan could muster: two brothers-in-law assassinated, her husband's near fatal plane crash, Chappaquiddick, which was followed a month later by a third miscarriage, then her son's leg amputation for cancer at twelve. She attempted a succession of cures: reviving a music career that had faltered, then psychiatrists, alcoholism sanitariums, even megavitamin therapy...
...crowd's reaction to the next 26 beatings, which lasted for 31/2 hours, varied. When convicts cried out under the lashes, onlookers occasionally tried to crash through police barriers to get a better look. When a prisoner managed to walk away unaided after his flogging, the people cheered. Midway through the proceedings, officials sidelined one of the whippers, whose strokes were not thought to be hard enough...
Riding the 5:04 in from Stamford, the stockbrokers looked a little sleepy and a little nervous. they usually come to work three hours later, but Monday on the 50th anniversary of the Stock Market's disastrous 1929 crash, they went to work in the dark...
...breaks for producers of synthetic fuels and for businesses that use conventional energy sources such as solar power represents a great improvement over an earlier $54 billion version of the bill. The new bill, which slows the push for synthetic fuels, recognizes that the "man-on-the-moon" crash program for synthetic fuels proposed during the summer by President Carter presented several dangers...
Synthetic fuels deserve some study as a possible psychological weapon against OPEC pricing policies, but they are no panacea. The Senate Finance Committee's moderation of Carter's crash program is a step in the right direction...