Word: smashingly
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After a shaky start to the season, the Harvard women's tennis team roared back, winning six of its last eight matches en route to a 12-9 overall record and a 5-2 mark in the Ivy League. The women's squad ended the year with a smash, defeating Brown 5-2 and sweeping Dartmouth 7-0 to place third in the conference...
...STARTED A venerable Broadway tradition, given fresh impetus by the smash success of The Producers...
...coexisted with The Sound of Music (which was one of four '60s musicals to win the Oscar for Best Picture and which reigned for 12 years as the world's top-grossing film). But the form soon atrophied. The last traditional live-action musical to be a box-office smash was Grease, in 1978. Since then, only animated features like Beauty and the Beast have put fannies in the seats and songs on the Top 40. And lately, even the cartoons are doing without a lot of new songs. Today the notion of people opening their mouths to sing their...
...Before I continue, let me stress how much I appreciate and admire the men and women who deliver the mail to my apartment building, despite their tendency to smash wedding invitations and magazines into irreparable balls. They bring that mail to us every darn day, and I wholeheartedly admire their work ethic...
...your mouth is dry and your hands clammy by the time you reach him, Jobs will know it. He'll bat your slightly probing questions away like bugs. He'll smash your really probing questions in mid-sentence like conspiratorial vials of poison. As one journalist who has covered the man for many years says, "he can smell fear...