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Word: smashingly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wildest fears imagined before: This is not an airplane coming toward me, it's a brick, and it is not gliding, it's falling, a fifty-thousand-pound brick, headed not for a stripe on the deck, but for me−and with a horrible smash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Generation Gaffes | 12/27/1976 | See Source »

...rival triads cannot peaceably split the spoils. At least twelve Chinese have been murdered in vendettas, which began last year with the killing of Chung Mon, a 55-year-old kingpin of the traffic. European narcs are now hoping for the type of squealer's revenge that helped smash the dope-dealing Corsican Mafia of Marseille in the early 1970s...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DRUGS: Heroin Rides an Orient Express | 11/29/1976 | See Source »

...Eliot defense, which has allowed only 16 points against it all year, pushed hard to contain the Yale offense, and their smash-and-holler tactics stymied the opposition's ground game...

Author: By Thomas A.J. Mcginn, | Title: Eliot Crushes Bulldogs, 15-0, As Harvard Houses Win Four | 11/13/1976 | See Source »

...sounds of yesterday-Count Basic, Hoagy Carmichael, Carmen Miranda-with its own swank brand of soul. Strains of Whispering (1920) are grafted onto Cherchez la Femme, a disco number bumping along to Mickey Sevilla's sassy drumbeat. A lilting intro evoking Glenn Miller evolves into the hustle smash I'll Play the Fool...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Sass and Class | 11/1/1976 | See Source »

...described eight methods of killing used at Makindye prison. These involved making prisoners line up and ordering the first to smash the second man's head with a hammer. The process was repeated down the line until the last man was shot. Another method was to cut flesh from a victim and force him to eat it until he died. Rugumayo said it was estimated that 80,000 to 90,000 people died in Amin's first two years in power: but he admitted that this might be a conservative figure...

Author: By Eric M. Breindel, | Title: Taking the Easy Way Out | 9/24/1976 | See Source »

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