Word: smash
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Then there happened the incredible incident which will be a nightmare for Helen Jacobs as long as she lives. She trotted up to smash the easy lob that seemed destined to end the match, hit the ball into the net. That made the score deuce. Mrs. Moody, suddenly reassured, ran out the game, the set, the match...
...Thousands of other soldiers and workers, however, are obliged to work all day in the scorching desert country, mending roads that trucks, tanks and tractors smash to bits a few hours later as they roar through the night to the plateau at the capital of [Eritrea], Asmara...
Rousingly Chamber and Senate answered with smash votes of confidence 324-160 and 233-15 respectively. On international exchange the franc rose as the pound, dollar, fell, carrying up with it the Swiss franc, guilder and lira. Displeased were French Communists and extreme Socialists, their spleeny spokesman being Pinko Deputy Leon LaGrange who had declared in debate, "The 200 families who rule this country are opposing the National will!" These villains, Deputy La-Grange said, are headed by "the regents of the Bank of France, de Rothschild and de Wendel!" In French villages sage peasants with gold in their mattresses...
...charges of "profanity and blasphemy." After winning the George Pierce Baker Cup at the Yale Drama School for its performance of the play, the Unity Players were forbidden in future to act Waiting for Lefty anywhere in New Haven. It took a concerted move by University liberals to smash the ban. When the Collective Theatre tried to put on Waiting for Lefty in Newark, the troupe was ousted from a school building, then moved to a hall which was promptly condemned by the Building Department, finally went to another hall where nine introductory speakers were successively arrested. In Hollywood...
...Japanese horticulturists were scoring a peace smash by escorting around their country a "friendship group" from the Garden Club of America, sure to return in ecstasies, since Japanese flower arrangement is unsurpassed...