Word: smash
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...astonishment, Oufkir suddenly proposed that the Moroccan air force be used to assassinate Gaddafi, who had never made any secret of his antipathy toward Hassan. "If only we could find out Gaddafi's flight plan," asked Oufkir, "what would you think of sending an F-5 to smash into him in the middle of the desert...
There is also a plentiful selection of heros for pragmatic temperaments. William Randolph Hearst 1885 made a smash with his pet animals in Matthews 46 before being thrown out at Christmas the next year for presenting inscribed chamber pots to each of his tutors. Horatio Alger 1860 himself started get-rich-quick fabulizing in Hotworthy...
...film The Producers, he played a zany impresario dedicated to staging a Broadway musical called Springtime for Hitler, a rococo recounting of the good old days in the Thousand Year Reich. Against all expectations, Mostel's musical was a smash -which turns out to have been prophetic. In the entertainment world nowadays, Hitler's springtime does indeed seem to have arrived...
...might seem. In tournaments he sits transfixed, his foot tapping rapidly to the beat of some inner fury. Playing through solitary games in his room, he slams home each move with cries of "Crunch!" "Chop!" "Smash!" "Crash!" U.S. Grand Master Robert Byrne suggests that the demon in him is his "pursuit of the Idea of the game, in the Platonic sense. All of us players have that ideal. But Bobby knows how to embody it. He has the ability to overcome the chaotic mess and the complexity of modern chess, the baroque scramble, and isolate a single theme, a single...
...Downtown, some anxious cops and a bevy of slinky, mindlessly sexy playmates. Compared with last year's Shaft original, Shaft's Big Score is more elaborate, a lot glossier and finally duller. Shaft himself suggests that the black man's ultimate goal is to live high, smash faces and make terrible demands on his sexual prowess. As the hero, Richard Roundtree brings considerably more fervor to the clinches than to the dialogue...