Word: smashingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...early days, but I always hoped for a great deal." The voice carries the deliberate calm of a man who has struggled singly and triumphed over great odds. One thinks of Gary Cooper in the last scenes of High Noon, though Kennedy now sees himself living in a smash movie by Federico Fellini...
...know my husband," she said. "He's a man of integrity, a man of honesty. I think many reporters are trying to be the investigative reporter who has that smash story that wins the Pulitzer Prize. They're going to be disappointed...
...High Jumper Zhu Jianhua, 21, who took the bronze with a leap of 7 ft. 7 in. But perhaps most important, China decided it wanted to win. In place of the political sports slogan of the Mao Tse-tung era, "Friendship first, competition second," came a cross-court smash of a rallying cry: "Break out of Asia and advance on the world...
...pander to the presumed interests of housewives. Thus contests were bypassed for irrelevant visits to a celebrity workout center and the Golden Door spa. The nadir may have been a demonstration by Vidal Sassoon of his hair styles for athletes; on the other hand, the coifs were a smash hit with the Olympians...
Wilson never could substantiate that claim in court. But it fed already widespread suspicions about U.S. intelligence practices and influenced the only acquittal that the arms dealer received after his empire went to smash. At his 1983 trial for attempting to hire three Cubans to assassinate a Libyan dissident in 1976, one of the Cubans testified that he had indeed worked with Wilson in both the CIA and Naval Intelligence, albeit before Wilson had put out the murder contract. The reaction of a member of the predominantly black jury appeared to reflect public opinion at the time: "This seemed like...