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Word: smashingly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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OPPOSITES, apparently, do not actually attract. If they did, then the American Repertory Theatre and the Huntington Theatre Company would tear loose from their foundations, hurtle into the air, and smash into each other somewhere over Allston...

Author: By Peter D. Sagal, | Title: Theatre Like It Oughta Be | 1/23/1987 | See Source »

...IRAN ARMS scandal has become the biggest media event of recent years--far surpassing the smash Libya Bombing Show, the shuttle explosion and even the New York City "crack" epidemic. Not a day goes by without a headline-making revelation of questionable White House conduct...

Author: By Mitchell A. Orenstein, | Title: Damaged Control | 12/11/1986 | See Source »

...began to chant, and to sway back and forth. "Smash ROTC, No Expansion: Smash ROTC. No Expansion." The noise on the steps increased. Suddenly it swelled and I saw a surging tidal wave of baby blue helmets, and baby-blue jackets criss-crossed wildly by thick brown clubs. The cops were rushing into the landing way behind the steps, smashing their clubs down on the kids who were waiting helpless. They weren't looking where they were hitting, just holding their clubs up and bringing them down as quickly and in as many directions as they could. I heard moans...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AN ARRESTING PARALLEL | 12/8/1986 | See Source »

...Bright early enough, you can watch the teams warm up. The big guns, the show-offs on each team, smash hard shots at the goalie and then turn to face the small, early-arriving crowd. Smiling...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, | Title: A Bright Pageant, On and Off the Ice | 12/6/1986 | See Source »

...fireworks begin. The monumental gravity of the neutron star raises such high tides on its companion that gases are torn wholesale from the white dwarf's surface and pulled into orbit around the neutron star, forming a so-called accretion disk. Some of that material continuously spirals down to smash into the surface of the neutron star -- at a rate of a trillion tons a second -- striking so violently that it literally explodes. Says Co-Discoverer William Priedhorsky of Los Alamos National Laboratory: "A neutron star can convert about 10% of the mass that falls on it into radiation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: A Celestial Odd Couple | 12/1/1986 | See Source »

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