Word: smash
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week it was finally admitted: the atomic bomb proved a seismological smash-hit. It shook the earth for 20 seconds, and some of the waves it started were entirely new to seismologists. Professor Leet calls them "hydrodynamic waves." While they were passing, the particles of earth moved up, forward, down and back, very much like particles of water on the surface of a wave-tossed...
...flash, WALL STREET LAYS AN EGG, and its STIX Nix Hix Fix, when bucolic cinemas' flopped in the hinterland) have attained a kind of backstage immortality. So have flopperoo, push over, palooka, scram, to click; and such trade phrases as "boff" (a variation of sock or punch) for smash hit, "preem," as a verb meaning to stage a premi...
...Smash Hit. In San Francisco, a streetcar crashed with complete abandon into a Navy shore patrol wagon, drew cheers from watching sailors...
...were chased back to earth by an atom-run train. . . . This is how it goes on Danny Kaye's show, week after week: 'My sister married an Irishman.' . . . 'Oh, really?' . . . 'No. O'Reilly.' ". . . Mrs. Anthony, what is the easiest way to smash a radio...
Dudley's Commuters, in second place with a record of three wins against one loss, could smash through to the top of the league if they beat Company 1 on Tuesday and Company 4 on Wednesday...