Word: smashingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...arranged for some 10,000 to hit the streets in Tunis. Tossing the "madman" epithet right back at Cairo, the mob paraded with banners reading "Palestinians recognize in Bourguiba their real defender" and "A firing squad for Nasser!", then broke through police lines to stone the Iraqi embassy and smash down the door at the Egyptian. Ambassadors took wing like homing pigeons. Egypt huffily ordered its envoy out of Tunisia, and in a single day Tunisian diplomats to Cairo, Damascus and Baghdad arrived back in Tunis...
...sento owners reckoned without the furious public. PEOPLE FLARE UP IN ANGER, screamed the banner headline in Tokyo's largest daily Yomiuri Shimbun; it reported that irate callers were jamming the paper's switchboard with threats to smash sento windows and protests that "They are infringing on basic human rights!" Cried Mrs. Eiko Takada, 24, mother of three: "How can we keep our babies living without bathing them at least once a day? Is the sento association trying to commit wholesale murder of babies?" Declared Mrs. Mumeo Oku, the vocal chairwoman of the Tokyo Housewives Association: "These...
...face on benches across a narrow aisle, supporters of the government and the Opposition tear into each other with shouts, boos, rudeness and savage wit until it seems as if the honorable members are on the point of coming to blows. In the House, Harold Wilson has been a smash success. He delights in appearing each Tuesday and Thursday to bat down hostile questions from the Opposition. He was eminently savage in his welcome of Peter Griffiths, the new Tory M.P. from Smethwick, who had beaten Gordon Walker in a campaign marked by the ugly slogan: "If you want...
...Bergdorf's minks. It sounds like Breakfast at Bergdorf's but its real title is My Name Is Barbra, an hourlong, one-girl, CBS-TV special this week. The taped show is also Barbra Streisand's way of saluting her first year in Broadway's smash hit, Funny Girl, and her own 23rd birthday. It is the most enchanting, tingling TV hour of the season...
...tommies overseas, Petula (pronounced Peh-tyou-la) was doing reasonably well, until at 25 she hiply hopped across the Channel to record two songs in France. When the first was a big hit, she settled down, married a French recording executive, bore two children and became a smash...