Word: smash
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hurdler Sam Butler will run into more than the usual obstacles with Army's Rick Madden and Gary Dellarocca expected to smash the Bubble's existing high hurdles record of 7.5 seconds...
UNLIKE MANY characters in modern novels who are paralyzed by a world that looms absurd and meaningless, Skelton maintains deliberate control by asserting the inviolability of his soul. This opens a great margin of humor in the book, for many experiences that would smash a weaker ego simply glance off Skelton. He is intellectually happy-go-lucky. Reflecting McGuane's authorial faith in the power of words to synthesize coherence from a barrage of external events, Skelton continually articulates his perceptions...
...Allen is such an intense, mental player," said captain Carlsson, who lost to Allen 21-17, and 21-19. "He was ready to top-spin smash the ball each time so that you have to serve fast or hit to his backhand just to get a fair chance...
Perks and Palaces. As between Cavaliers and Roundheads, this is a portrait of Cromwell that no Roundhead sympathizer could fault. When Cromwell puts a thousand innocent men, women, children and priests to the sword at Drogheda, the author tells us he was in a fit of passion. Did he smash and savage churches in England? Well, choirs and pageantry and opulent vestments outraged his Puritan conscience...
Editors were skeptical about a whimsical, literate strip full of talking animals; comic pages then belonged to the likes of Dick Tracy and Mary Worth. But Pogo was a smash. At its peak, the strip appeared in nearly 500 papers. The self-effacing possum made a major splash on the national scene in 1952, when college students parodied the Republicans' "I Like Ike" slogan by chanting "I Go Pogo." After a national write-in campaign, Pogo gracefully conceded the election to Eisenhower. Kelly introduced an unshaven wildcat named Simple J. Malarkey, who resembled the then-rampant Joe McCarthy...