Word: smashingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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However, Toronto rallied in the next round of play to smash B.C., 9-1, in a thriller which included two fist fights...
...world. But then came the doubles, and the U.S. team victimized Neale Fraser, 30, who had been called out of retirement to pair with Emerson. Keeping the ball away from Emerson, the Americans gave Fraser cut shots and lobs. Taunted beyond endurance, he wound up to smash one lob-and missed completely. McKinley and Ralston won handily-and took a 2-1 lead...
...Broadway. Hart was a shrewd, witty, candid and flamboyant theater man. As played on the screen by George Hamilton, he seems reserved, artless, uncertain. The movie audience is asked to imagine him as the boy wonder who collaborated with Writer-Director George S. Kaufman on the 1930 comedy smash, Once in a Lifetime. It's hard...
...ripping up placards and setting one army truck afire to shouts of, "We don't want this government!" When Ne Win ordered the closing down of Rangoon university last week, the students, led by leftist agitators, barricaded the gates and staged a sit-in. Bulldozers ordered out to smash the barricades were beaten back with hurled stones, and fire hoses failed because of insufficient water pressure. Finally, tough riot police with tear gas dislodged the students. Three other universities at Bassein, Moulmein and Mandalay were padlocked by the government...
Some revered anthems began as jokes -for example, The Eyes of Texas Are Upon You, born in 1903 when Carry Nation visited Austin to smash up a saloon near the University of Texas. Warning his lads not to "cheer this poor deluded woman," President William L. Prather begged them to remember that "the eyes of Texas are upon you." In barely two years, the resulting gag song (to I've Been Working on the Railroad) was sufficiently solemnized to be sung at Prather's funeral...