Word: fells
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...field near Llandow airport. Just after 3 p.m. they stopped to watch the plane come in to land. Tom Newman, 29, turned to his father and said: "Look, he's coming in low. Something is going to happen." Then, suddenly, the plane flopped over on its back and fell with an earth-shaking thud onto the green turf...
...year later, perhaps from shock, worry, and a fall from favor because of the rise of Titoism, Zhdanov died. At once Malenkov more than made up his lost ground. In the process, a blight fell upon the fortunes of outstanding Zhdanov...
...Sporting News (circ. 219,545), the baseball fan's bible, took a mighty cut at the ball last week and fell into the water bucket. "Because sports are nonpolitical in nature," declaimed the dead-serious News, "no censor hobbles sportcasters . . . [But in] parlous times ... it behooves us to know who are working at the microphones and whether they . . . might be subversive or convert themselves into mediums of communication for an enemy that might strike overnight." Not pointing "the finger of suspicion," the Sporting News nevertheless recommended: since labor leaders, scientists and teachers get loyalty tests, why not sportcasters...
They raced under the wire as one. An unreal silence fell. Finally the photofinish camera revealed the truth: Noor had beaten Citation again, by the thinnest fraction of a nose. The time: 2:52 4/5, a new American record for the mile and three quarters...
...from space surrounded by a retinue of meteors. On its first pass, it missed the earth by a comet's eyelash, showering the surface with "stones from the sky." Dreadful things happened, of course. The rivers ran red as blood. The oceans slopped around. Mountain ranges rose or fell, and lots of people were killed...