Word: unhurt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tornado smashed in, the high steel pyramid doubled into an inverted-V. Randall straightened up, unhurt. Up Shinns Run, the storm swirled across the countryside in a path 300 yards wide, leveling trees, houses and fences as if an army of bulldozers had streaked through the valley. At Boothsville, the tornado uprooted a new $250,000 pumping station, and slammed it against a hillside. An 80-lb. wrench lit in a field a half-mile away. Rescue workers counted 58 dead from the "Shinnston Tornado," worst in West Virginia's history...
Wilhelmina, Queen of the Netherlands, escaped unhurt, lost two bodyguards, in a direct bomb hit on the house in which she was staying near London...
...Behncke-CAB row marks a milestone in air transport labor relations. Ever since 1934, when Behncke was an airmail pilot on the Chicago-Omaha run and was forced by bad weather to pancake his plane into a treetop, he has doggedly campaigned for greater safety in flying. Unhurt in the crash, he toppled ignobly to the ground while getting out of his wrecked ship, broke his leg, quit flying. Since its beginning in 1931 he has headed the A.L.P.A. (4,500 members), which he helped found. Reasonable in his dealings with management, Behncke has been unrelentingly stubborn about safety measures...
...SEVEN JUMP FROM PLANES WITHOUT PARACHUTES." The story: three Canadians, four Englishmen jumped from a Lancaster bomber over southern Sweden after the Stettin raid "all unhurt . . . astonishing feat." In other papers the astonishing feat was qualified by a fact that Dagens Nyheter did not print. When the jump was made the plane was over southern Sweden, but it was on the ground...
Many died on the battlefield. Their hospital was crammed with wounded. The unhurt were brokenhearted. Long afterward their general sat, staring sadly at the hill from his observation post. Crown Prince Umberto, who had been there at the start, had already left. Later he flew over the German lines in a tiny, vulnerable U.S. observation plane. Like his pint-sized royal father, Umberto was counting on this new army to remove some of the tarnish from the House of Savoy...