Word: crashingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...better condition, established air supply lines for gasoline, parts and crews. At heart still a tackle (West Point 1924-25), Blondie was a Flying Commander, too, led many a bombing mission. On a raid over the Shortland Islands his pilot and co-pilot were killed. Saunders took the controls, crash-landed on a beach from which he and other survivors were picked up next...
Left. By the late Duke of Kent, killed in a plane crash last August: an estate valued at $692,300. Net value of his personal property: $393,248. Contents of the will were kept private, as all wills of British royalty have been since...
Approaching the enemy through the jungle, ominous enough in peace, multiplies nerve tension: "Tiny noises became exaggerated in our minds. Drops of accumulated drizzle would crash down onto fallen leaves like heavy footfalls. The click of a canteen cover belonging to one of our own men at some point where the trail doubled back beyond a screen of jungle sounded like a whole machine gun being...
Killed on Duty. Major Eric Knight, 45, best-selling novelist (This Above All), comic fantasist (The Flying Yorkshireman); in an air transport crash in Dutch Guiana. Born in Yorkshire, he spent most of his life in the U.S., served in World War I with Canada's crack "Princess Pat" Light Infantry Regiment, won his U.S. Army commission last July...
...reserves could be safely moved -and none could be added, because other fronts were in distress. Yet here was potentially the greatest threat of all to the integrity of the German front. The one way the Red Army can decisively smash the German position in Russia is to crash through the great lateral Smolensk-Kursk-Kharkov-Crimea railway system into relatively ill-defended positions behind it. This week the drive was still young, the results unclear. In any case it kept thousands of Germans pinned down...