Word: smashingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...themselves. "That guy can field a ball with a pair of pliers," moaned Rightfielder Pete Rose. "The only way to beat him," added Catcher Johnny Bench, "is to hit it over his head." Bench should know. In the final game, the Reds' cleanup hitter powered a line smash toward left field only to see Robinson make yet another spectacular diving catch. Reds Manager Sparky Anderson summed up the Series in three little words: "Robinson beat...
Dartmouth scored the first three times it had the ball and went on to smash Brown, 42-14. The Indians are so well-balanced this year that none of the starters have had a chance to pile up impressive individual statistics. The second string comes in at halftime...
...prosperity and a growing advertising industry boosted the car into the national consciousness, the automobile began to play an important part in our literature. Clyde Griffiths, the American Dream hero of Dreiser's American Tragedy, sets out on his destructive way after an afternoon joyride ends in a bloody smash-up. Fitzgerald's Great Gatsby resolves itself after a car crash...
...roaring into Chi through a night torched by the steel-mill fires, eerie and hellish," writes Wakefield. They reach a curve in the road and Sonny fumbles, realizing it is "too late, too late even to put on the brake." They head straight into a cement abutment and then smash...
...Then, in a scene reminiscent of General Douglas MacArthur's dispersing the Washington Jonus Marchers in 1932, the riot police chased the residents-disabled war veterans and their families-out of their hacks. As the veterans, many missing arms and legs, scampered out, the police used crowbars to smash the flimsy shelters. While women and children prevailed, one despairing veteran slashed tis wrists. Squatters who resisted were beaten with rifle butts...