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Word: smash (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Usage:

...pitied by the family and ridiculed by friends of friends. Not any more. Not, that is, if you are James Coco, a fat, balding, bachelor of 39 who opened to rave notices last week as Barney Cashman in Last of the Red Hot Lovers, Neil Simon's latest smash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Adventures of the Fat Man | 1/12/1970 | See Source »

...Keep in mind that the primary purpose of words is not to express meaning but to pump adrenalin. Use active, blood-tingling verbs like "smash" or "liberate." If anybody disagrees with you, call him imperialist, authoritarian or at least manipulator for the power elite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Jeers or Jeremiads? | 1/5/1970 | See Source »

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