Word: smashingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Then the netmen did what they hadn't been doing convincingly all year; that is, win doubles matches under pressure of losing the match. This time around, Greg Kirsch came out "like a ball of fire," teaming with Terner to smash the UPenn third doubles, 6-3, 6-2. The other two doubles matches extended into three sets each, with number one Pompan and Sands winning 4-6, 6-1, 6-1, and Beren and Grossman topping Hardy and Smithline...
...knives were but a dream in Shreve, Crump of Low's darkest recesses. But if Alvin Toffler heard you he would scold, consigning you to the First Wave, which began with the original harvest. For Toffler is a visionary, looking out to sea at that big comber waiting to smash the sandcastles of today--this Third Wave, the biggest, most powerful, most blessed of all. "The Third Wave," he notes in the introduction, "is for those who think the human story, far from ending, has only just begun...
...little damage, but they roughed up some innocent bystanders and frightened others. Many carried pipes, chains and clubs. "Revolution" was Marshall's own word for this ominous wave of the future, but other rhetorical staples of the day went along with it: "Power to the people!" and "Smash the state!" The vague goal was communism"with a small c," Marshall now insists...
Marshall and his hard-drinking, smash-the-state buddies then plunged into a peculiarly American form of modern revolutionism for several months. By day, they harangued students at Seattle's high school and college campuses on the war, racism and capitalism. By night they caroused into the early hours in a blurry continuum of beer, pot, sex and leftist war cries. But the frenetic "mobilizing" and hedonism was itself a clue to Marshall's own eventual disillusionment with radicalism. He had broken with S.D.S. in 1969 when it was taken over by the hate-filled and paranoid Weatherman...
...time. ABC will also rerun the hit movie The Sting on April 20, ahead of schedule. Not to be ambushed, CBS has slipped in Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones, a two-part TV movie, just before the closing of the ratings season. Should this show prove a smash one-two punch, CBS may once more be known as "the Tiffany of the networks...