Word: crashed
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Only horses, dogs and children got very close to Stephen Crane while he lived. In the half century since his death, two biographers have tried to crash the circle. Thomas Beer's study in 1923 recreated the '90s more vividly than it did Crane. Poet John Berryman sticks closer to his subject, but the reader may still wonder occasionally whether he is on the trail of a man or a mirage...
Wall Streeters have grown superstitious about holidays, and with good reason. The crash that ended 1946's bull market followed the long Labor Day weekend. The Memorial Day weekend in 1949 brought another shakeout. But last week the stock market exorcised the hex. In a buying surge the day before Thanksgiving, stocks started up, and kept right on going after the holiday...
...Mountain Law. In the winter thick snows rest on Mont Blanc so lightly that the vibration of a man's voice can bring them cascading down in lethal tons. It was almost certain that nobody in the plane, even had he survived the crash, could have lived for two days on the mountain. In the valleys below Mont Blanc, however, there is an unwritten law that when a man is lost on the mountain, somebody must go after him. In Chamonix, sharp, energetic little Rene Payot, first Alpinist of France and chief instructor at the army's mountaineering...
Three Secrets (Warner) opens dramatically with the crash of a private plane on a mountain peak. The only survivor: the adopted five-year-old son of the plane's owners. While a rescue party toils up the cliff to rescue him, three women agonize at the foot of the mountain. Each of them -a Good Girl, a Bad Girl and a Career Girl-is convinced that the injured...
...become a Guards officer, not because he liked the army, but because it seemed the surest way to a soft life and quick acceptance in the best London circles. At the end of nine months of scheming and making up to persons of influence, he had failed to crash the Guards and was thinking better of the law. But he had had a gay time and, somewhat astonishingly, had won the firm friendship of England's top man of letters, Samuel Johnson...