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Word: smash (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hill, also a senior, holds three Yale records and will smash the scoring mark of the fabled Albie Booth if he gets any points today. Strong (215 lbs.) and fast (a track star in the long jump), Hill has rushed for 588 yards, fourth in the League, and caught 20 passes for 504 yards...

Author: By Richard D. Paisner, | Title: Harvard, Yale Clash for Ivy Title | 11/23/1968 | See Source »

...silent minutes, the Lions prepare for a preseason exhibition game with the St. Louis Cardinals. With the unsmiling dignity of bullfighters, the players in the dressing room tape up their scarred knees and ribs, drop their false teeth and rings into a trainer's cigar box, suddenly smash their shoulder pads in explosive bursts against a tile wall. The game itself is a vivid swirl of colors and curses, as the sweating players pound out their fury against the enemy, then sit alone, gasping and retching on the bench. When Alda final ly takes the field to re-enact...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Requiem for a Quarterback | 11/22/1968 | See Source »

...scene before that his father will surely open his safe and count his money at three in the morning, it's hard to believe that even super-capitalist Ed would actually get out of bed to do this. During the robbery attempt, as one of the boys tries to smash Ed on the back of the head with a bottle, the victim pulls out a gun and fires it into the air. This quick thinking seems a bit too quick, for my money. The three black boys then run out, and, just as Paul gets to the door to escape...

Author: By Frank Rich, | Title: Sligar and Son | 11/9/1968 | See Source »

Mobs of screaming students last week swarmed through the vast Shinjuku rail way station, Tokyo's largest. Wearing plastic helmets, the lower half of their faces masked with towels as a protection against tear gas, the students scrambled over tracks and platforms, smashing train windows, disemboweling seats, splintering and setting fire to doors, benches and stairways. One rioter shinnied up a pole to smash the signal lights - he touched a high-voltage line and crashed to earth in a shower of sparks, critically injured...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Japan: Violence in Shinjuku Station | 11/1/1968 | See Source »

Halfback Carl Brown ran into a mass of Harvard defenders on a line smash but he broke past the line of scrimmage and romped 70 yards to make the final score...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dartmouth Frosh Humble Crimson | 10/26/1968 | See Source »

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