Word: crushed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rinchart's hockey all-stars, held even for half the game, broke loose for four goals in the second period to crush the Wintergreen sextet, 5 to 2, yesterday at the Skating Club...
...Mosler offered a booklet. What You Should Know About Safes, one request came from a burglar serving a life term in the Texas State Prison. "When puzzle locks [i.e., combination locks] were first used a century ago," said Mosler, "crooks devised the 'drag,' a powerful screw to crush the walls around the lock. When the walls were strengthened, they took to the jackscrew to force wedges between the door and the jamb. When safe doors were built with bolts that slid into the jamb on all four sides, safecrackers began blowing gunpowder around the door with...
...Morningside Heights to his headquarters in Manhattan's Commodore Hotel. There the harried management had moved the wooden barrier far out into the sixth-floor lobby in an attempt to clear a passage through which Ike and his visitors could reach an elevator without being smothered by the crush of reporters and photographers...
...Crimson junior varsity managed to stay on side often enough to score five touchdowns and crush an inept Dean Academy team, 33 to 14, in a sloppy game at Soldiers Field yesterday afternoon...
...Chairman, who had been selected by a partisan majority, agreed instantly, which precipitated a lusty debate. Massachusetts' John Heselton, Brown's counterpart in the Committee's pro-Eisenhower conclave, moved to overule the Chair. Washington's Eastvold declared loudly that he thought it ridiculous for the steamroller to crush one single delegate. Brown winched, rose in protest, and moved adjournment estensibly to allow Committee members their evening victuals. Again, the Chair readily granted his motion...