Word: crashed
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...news hit the headlines with a crash like a brickbat sailing through a precinct station window. Britain's refusal to grant Irish unity was an understandably serious problem to the Irish-but should it be allowed to split the two principal allies in the cold war? Ireland's Prime Minister John Costello applauded Fogarty heartily and said a few statesmanlike words about "free peoples of the world" and England's "great wrong." Somebody fired off a bomb in Belfast (a small one which only injured one policeman). But a great many earnest U.S. citizens shredded their morning...
...Lester Kipp was cooking breakfast one morning last week when something about the throb of a nearby aircraft made her look up at the sky through the kitchen window. She was just in time to see a plane explode in the air over a neighbor's barn, then crash in a great ball of orange flame in a nearby field. "Lester," cried Mrs. Kipp to her husband, "go help the people...
...play is usually given to such local news as murders, rapes and fires. One day last week, the Post carried no less than ten such Page One stories, ineluding: BEATINGS OF WAIFS CHARGED; WOMEN SAVE BLAZING MAN; 2 BOYS DROWN IN TRUCK CAB: MAN KILLED IN TRUCK CRASH; AUTO DRAGS CHILD OF THREE 200 YARDS ; and EXPECT INN DEATH...
...Falstaff, they found the result, as usual, more than worth all the fussing and finishing. They heard a Falstaff that was robustiously humorous without being rambunctious-all of it performed with the kind of brilliance, clarity and pace that brought the studio audience bravoing to its feet with the crash of the final chord...
Died. Laurence Adolphe Steinhardt, 57, U.S. Ambassador to Canada, early New Deal diplomat who since 1937 had served as Ambassador to Peru, Soviet Russia, Turkey and Czechoslovakia; in the crash of a U.S. embassy plane; near Ottawa, Ont. (see THE HEMISPHERE...