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Word: smashes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...This is too much!" he shouted. "Either I smash my hand across his face, or I attack him for libel, or I resign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Name Your Seconds, Sir! | 2/7/1955 | See Source »

...will agree with you. But how long can this nation live in constant fear without getting a generation of neurasthenics or, what is worse, a generation of the devil-may-care variety. Why wait for "the approaching deadlock"? Why wait for the time when "each has the power to smash the other into radioactive rubble"? Why not attack the enemy first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: The Pistol & the Claw | 1/31/1955 | See Source »

Floodwaters on an Autobahn caused a freak chain-reaction smash-up involving 69 cars, trucks and motorcycles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WESTERN EUROPE: Gody's Elbows | 1/31/1955 | See Source »

...history was full of attempts to play, smash, or steal it, and once, it did almost a better job of stopping Yale than the football team. I 1947, an overzealous Eli fan ran onto the filed and tried to crash through the cowhide heads. There was a tremendous bang, but the Yalie ended up unconscious and the big drum still intact...

Author: By Jack Rosenthal, | Title: Band's Eight-Foot Bass Drum Expires From Age, Cold | 1/29/1955 | See Source »

...greatest crime reporter of our time." In almost 20 years of covering crime he has been slugged, kicked, lunged at with knives, shot at, knuckle-dusted and was once the target of a speeding automobile that raced onto the sidewalk of a narrow Soho street and tried to smash him against a building. Last week Webb was still wearing a plaster cast on his right wrist, broken two months ago when a London gangster known as "Jack Spot" objected to one of his stories by attacking Webb in a back alley of the city...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Twenty Years of Crime | 1/10/1955 | See Source »

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