Word: crewed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...worst airline accident in U.S. history-but there was a worse one before the sun had set again. Next evening a Florida-bound Eastern Airlines DC-4, stricken by structural failure, plunged out of a sunlit sky into a Maryland bog, and the lives of the 53 passengers and crew were snuffed out in the twinkling...
Scattered through it all were passengers and crew-53 in all. They had perished instantly. Almost everybody was charred and broken; arms and legs were strewn about and hung from the trees...
...black line-squall loomed in the northwest and lightning flared from cloud to cloud as United Airlines Cleveland-bound Flight 521, 44 passengers, four crew, trundled away from the LaGuardia Field ramp on the eve of Memorial Day. As he taxied out to the far side of the field, 38-year-old Captain Benton R. ("Lucky") Baldwin was cleared for takeoff. The control tower gave him his choice of two runways-No. 13 or No. 18.* He picked the shortest, No. 18; it was only 3,533 feet long but it pointed directly into the brisk, 18 m.p.h. south wind...
Then Somoza changed his mind. At the head of 25 men he appeared at the Palacio de Comunicaciones, seized the telephone and telegraph wires. With a radio microphone in one hand to instruct his single tank crew and a telephone in the other to demand surrender, Somoza sent out his troops. By 3 o'clock in the morning he had Congress in session; Congress declared argüello "mentally incompetent." Then Somoza went up the hill, awoke the President, told him he was through. Somoza had won his cheapest victory...
Dick Harlow (football) and Tom Bolles (crew) were similarly honored...