Word: smash
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...many of the good people of Boston were speculating on the means by which they would get themselves to Worcester in the event that the Germans landed on the Massachusetts coast and settled down to a celebration in Boston. They told themselves with some apprehension that the Germans would smash up automobiles, break the windows of hotels and residences, put the police to route and make the town a noisy, disorderly shambles. Had the Boston Chamber of Commerce sent emissaries to Kaiser Wilhelm II to urge him to make Boston his headquarters, such a zealot would have been hanged...
...deadlier player than Richards, the slim prodigy who used to beat Tilden sometimes before he turned professional. No one could have touched the angled volleys he made from Kozeluh's drives, and late in the match few lobs were pitched well enough to give him anything but a smash. Richards won the last two sets, 6-3, 6-4, and the title that went with them. Later, paired with Howard Kinsey, Richards defeated Kozeluh and Roman Najuch of Germany for the doubles title...
Grimly last week H. E. Maj.-General Sir Frederick Sykes, Governor of Bombay Presidency, moved to smash by military rather than police methods St. Gandhi's independence movement at its focus, Bombay...
Banging the rostrum as though to smash it, barking his words in thin staccato, turning from side to side and gesticulating so vigorously that his glasses seemed about to fall off, General Dawes delivered one of his best speeches in quite his best, slashing, he-American style...
...York in the last two years, the Treasury Department last week sent a questionnaire. Promised immunity, each was asked whether he had given the customs inspectors at the pier a gratuity, whether any had been asked. Purpose of the quiz: to break up petty customs graft, to smash a ring of narcotic smugglers...