Word: wrecks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...track, pulling the freight cars with them. Five cars plunged into a field; three others pounded one another to confused wreckage on the tracks. Another was derailed in a narrow cut. The toll: 178 dead and nearly 700 injured-biggest Western Hemisphere railroad death total since a Mexican train wreck killed approximately...
Before the trial opened, Girard's Army defense counsel said: "The boy is getting skinny. This thing is so hard on him that he has become a nervous wreck." Fresh from a visit with the defendant, the American Legion's Observer Alvin M. Owsley burbled: "There is something sweet about this youth. He does not stand alone. He is part of America...
When they crept into Chicago last week, Casey's world champs were in sorry shape. Their campaign in the West was a wreck: they had lost five out of seven games, seen their lead over the Sox dwindle to 32 games. Their pitching staff was riddled with walking wounded: Little Bobby Shantz, who had carried the Yanks all summer, was nursing a sore pitching finger; Whitey Ford was worried with a shoulder that throbbed whenever he thought of throwing; World Series Hero Don Larsen was in disrepair. Their heaviest hitter, Center Fielder Mickey Mantle, was hobbled with shin splints...
...upright, Floyd showed signs of solicitude almost shocking in an honest fistfighter; he waltzed the challenger around, cuffed him into position, held him erect as if part of his job was to make Pete look good. In the sixth round, after seven knockdowns. Rademacher was a rubber-legged wreck and had taken the ten-count for a knockout...
...case of the West Side shakes. Says he: "She got outgeneraled and outfought by Shirley Fry. Forest Hills meant everything to her. She wanted it so much it awed her till it was like living in a pressure cabin. When the day came, she was a nervous wreck, and Fry beat her like a mother beats a child...