A few months after Brixton's Bloody Saturday, in the spring of 1981, our London correspondent, Mollie Panter-Downes, summed up the aftermath: The riots were a sort of harsh educational crash course for bewildered citizens who had believed that it could not happen here or had trusted to the long patience of the English character to accept the bad times somehow.
A plane navigating through harsh thunderstorms crashed Thursday morning as it was trying to land at an airport in southern Minnesota, killing at least eight people, many of them business executives on their way to a meeting, the Federal Aviation Administration and the local authorities said.
Sober, the harsh July sun crashing through the large rectangular windows in Dr. Gramm's office, she felt exposed and vulnerable, even more than usual.
But many felt unbearable sadness at the contrast of the beauty of the natural surroundings of this little Alpine mountain village, with its historic stone citadel, with the harsh reality of the crash and the ongoing search for the victims' scattered remains on the rugged mountain terrain beyond.
In a remarkable passage covering her past before she met John, real life, harsh and complex, suddenly crashes into the narrative of the life of a dreamy, posy, amiably ambitious young fellow; extensive quotations from Penelope's superbly written diaries, stories and novels offer an unforgettably unsparing analysis of the man she so deeply and despairingly loved.
recounts those demoralizing months when the most concerted push for gun control measures crashed into harsh political realities.
A Brentwood real-estate developer (an appropriately downtrodden-looking D. B. Sweeney) won't tell his wife (Clare Carey) just how harsh a toll the housing crash has taken on their finances.
Using a simple three-note roar and plenty of fortissimo orchestral crashes, Wagner whips up harsh weather and bleak seas in the overture to The Flying Dutchman.
Events at HBOS, which grew rapidly during the housing boom that fueled much of Britain's prosperity before the crash, have come under particularly harsh scrutiny.
He straightened as music from an early Prokofiev ballet crashed from the speakers, a harsh wash of grating horns and driving drums.
