Word: smashes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with the jeering chorus: "Jew-pig, Jew-pig." One evening soon after Sumpf's arrival, a gang of toughs led by the son of a former Nazi bigwig stalked into the café proclaiming that Sumpf "should have been gassed 20 years ago," spent a drunken half-hour smashing beer glasses against the wall. They returned two weeks later and began to smash up the café furniture. Sumpf called the cops, only to have a police sergeant snarl at him: "Why don't you close your dive...
...smash him, Castro sent a small combined unit of militia and regulars under the command of a major. Instead, Beatón killed the major. Out from Havana on the run hurried an alarmed Fidel with his army chief, Juan Almeida, and his Armed Forces Minister, Brother Raúl, at his side. Pelted by spring rains, they slogged last week through calf-deep red mud seeking out the new rebel...
...Africans who had disregarded Mourning Day and had gone in to work for the white man as usual. Forming a human chain across the tracks, one gang stopped a commuter train, dragged off the dozen Africans aboard and kicked and beat them. Others used roadbed ballast stones to smash train windows, dragging one young African messenger off and amputating his hands with a broad-bladed knife...
...forward. Down on the field, leathery veterans turn away from their pepper games and sliding drills to watch. When the Los Angeles Dodgers' Frank Howard, 23, puts the power of his 6-ft. y-in., 240-lb. body behind the swing of his 37-in. bat, he can smash drives that make infielders repent choosing their profession, and send outfielders scrambling back to the orange groves. Says Dodger Coach Pete Reiser: "I've never seen anyone hit the ball like Howard, and I saw Kiner when he came up, and Greenberg in his prime...
...Gigantic (6 ft. 4 in., 260 Ibs.) Dallas Long of the University of Southern California huffed and puffed the 16-lb. shot 64 ft. 6½in. at a meet in Los Angeles to smash by 8| inches the pending world record of Army Lieut. Bill Nieder...