Word: smashingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...brick Bushnell Memorial Hall, delegates fidgeted and fussed. At 1:34 in the morning, after 10 hr. and 49 min. and eight roll calls, Connecticut Republicans finally selected Insurance Executive John Alsop as their candidate for Governor. Next day, tired and irritable, they took just one decisive muster to smash the comeback attempt of former Governor-Diplomat John Davis Lodge, who wanted to be their nominee for the U.S. Senate...
...always fear unloaded rifles. They used them to smash heads...
Scott recently staged a smash-hit "New Deal Assembly" at Fieldston, complete with soup kitchen, union songs and F.D.R. speeches. In other years, he has done as much for the Civil and Revolutionary wars. Scott is perhaps the leading practitioner of the most exciting new art in U.S. high school history teaching-throwing away textbooks and going to original sources...
...Elsa Maxwell, 78, put on the biggest fountain scene since Zelda Fitzgerald wowed them in the '20s with her midnight dips in the pool outside Manhattan's Hotel Plaza. Planted before a fountain set up in the Plaza's ballroom for the Renaissance Ball, a society smash for the benefit of Italian orphans and students, Party-Giver Maxwell did an improbable impersonation of Anita Ekberg's sexy splashings in La Dolce Vita, wound up by tossing the toy cat she was holding to the audience. "Even at my age," said she, "I am perfectly willing...
...member Ukrainian Dance Company, predictably, was a smash. Like the Moiseyev dancers before them, the Ukrainians offered ersatz folk dances-works grounded in folk traditions but theatricalized beyond anything that a wandering muzhik ever saw in a village square...