Word: smashingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...motorists have long had their own way of commemorating the nation's war dead on Memorial Day. They take to streets and highways, smash into each other, and create more dead. On Memorial Day last week, they managed to kill 159 people-a record-shattering performance that far surpassed the previous high...
...Died. Wilfred Theodore ("Ted") Weems, 62, bandleader and creator of the "businessman's bounce," which carried him to the top of the bigtime in the '30s and again briefly in 1947 when his Heartaches was a surprise smash, bringing the flappers-turned-matrons back for just one more go-round; of a pulmonary emphysema; in Tulsa, Okla...
...Germany, because it is too low." To this, he stiffly adds that his Teutonopho-bia is a sturdy vintage '14-under Hitler it merely matured. It was the atrocities in Belgium during World War I that first moved Rubinstein to swear "a solemn and heavy oath" he would smash his fingers before playing again in Germany, and the oath grew heavier in World...
There have always been restraints to work, moral and legal brakes that have tried to prevent runaways at smash-up speed from destroying things people set store...
...lost, lost, do you hear? You don't hear? I'm yowling - don't you hear me? Switch the lights off! Smash the bulbs! Can you hear me now? Louder! you say? Louder! Christ, are you making sport of me? Are you deaf, dumb, and blind? Must I yank my clothes off? Must I dance on my head...