Word: smashingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...singled to open the fifth inning. A walk and an error moved him to third, scoring on a sacrifice fly. Tufts doubled its tally in the eighth, when Tom Snarsky started things with a two-out single. John Andon's walk moved Snarsky to second, and Tom Smerczynski's smash to right brought him in to score. Andon would have followed suit, but the ball bounced over the fence and the score stood...
Spart tactics include the personal harassment of campus leftists, and physical attacks on leftist rallies. But the most common Spart stunt involves raising the most strident, obnoxious slogans possible: my personal favorites are "Hail Red Army in Afghanistan!" and "Smash Solidarity's Counterrevolution!" These wacked-out slogans almost seem calculated to upset the delicate balance that goes into any political coalition...
...second story, vaguely science-fiction, centers around Valentine Brodie, a college professor and dabbling sci-fi writer. In a twist of morbid irony, he finds himself amides scenarios all too typical of, the genre he never took quite seriously: Lynx, a wandering planet from outer space, is going to smash the earth, ending civilization as we know it. But a plan to salvage humanity, by sending the cream of the race into space to begin a new, brings the story back to Burgess' theme--the question of just what is worthwhile about humanity and the culture we have created. According...
Sighs a Bombay movie producer: "As a drama, Gandhi vs. Gandhi has all the makings of a box-office smash. I wish I could make...
They pass a big square park building. Stones and bricks are hurled up out of the running crowd and smash to pieces the building's 20-foot-tall plate glass windows...