Word: prang
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...sinister sidekick (Jack Weston) know it very well, and they decide to make worm food of Jerry before Jerry finds out. The sidekick tries to run him down with his big, black, shark-shaped limousine-Jerry falls in a manhole just in time. The sidekick tries to prang him with a high-powered rifle-Jerry is so jerky that the punk just can't hold him in his sights. The sidekick tries to blow him up along with a small sailboat-Jerry is snagged in the behind by a fishhook and yanked overboard three seconds before the boat explodes...
Less & More. Britain's new Defense Minister, vigorous Harold MacMillan, after only six weeks in office, has set himself the goal of beefing up British defenses while lowering British taxes-to get more prang for the pound, a British version of more bang for a buck. MacMillan has made several big decisions. Items: ¶ Britain's antiaircraft command, which employs 100,000 regulars and reserves, is soon to be abolished. Reason: the Red air force's sweptwing, supersonic T-39 bomber (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) flies well above the range of Britain's heaviest ack-ack guns...
Landing airplanes on a carrier has always been tricky, and it gets trickier as airplanes get faster. Last week Britain's Royal Navy told about a new and reasonably prang-proof system for landing the fastest jets...
...word "prang," as applied to crashing, is strictly limited. I haven't heard it used for two or three years, but mention of crashes and crashing leads me to a mild rebuke. No mention of our slanguage is complete without mention of our most famous phrasing, and that is the expression "gone for a Burton." When anything or anybody is through for good, it or he is said to have "gone for a Burton." ... If one of your "oppos" (universal term for buddies) is killed, you don't say he was killed, you just say, "Poor...
...will seep into the dictionary is a lexicographer's guess, but some of its catchier terms have already been adopted by groundlings. Among thousands of Americans, "browned off" already means fed up. ("Brassed off" means very fed up and "cheesed off" is utterly disgusted.) To crash is to "prang." To take a "dim view" is to look upon skeptically...