Word: smashingly
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Africans who had disregarded Mourning Day and had gone in to work for the white man as usual. Forming a human chain across the tracks, one gang stopped a commuter train, dragged off the dozen Africans aboard and kicked and beat them. Others used roadbed ballast stones to smash train windows, dragging one young African messenger off and amputating his hands with a broad-bladed knife...
...forward. Down on the field, leathery veterans turn away from their pepper games and sliding drills to watch. When the Los Angeles Dodgers' Frank Howard, 23, puts the power of his 6-ft. y-in., 240-lb. body behind the swing of his 37-in. bat, he can smash drives that make infielders repent choosing their profession, and send outfielders scrambling back to the orange groves. Says Dodger Coach Pete Reiser: "I've never seen anyone hit the ball like Howard, and I saw Kiner when he came up, and Greenberg in his prime...
...Gigantic (6 ft. 4 in., 260 Ibs.) Dallas Long of the University of Southern California huffed and puffed the 16-lb. shot 64 ft. 6½in. at a meet in Los Angeles to smash by 8| inches the pending world record of Army Lieut. Bill Nieder...
...Burly (6 ft. 3 in., 242 Ibs.) Lieut. Bill Nieder, 26, hurled the 16-lb. shot 63 ft. 10 in. in an invitational meet at Stanford University to smash the official world record of Los Angeles' Parry O'Brien (63 ft. 2 in.), and the pending mark of the University of Southern California's Dallas Long (63 ft. 7 in.). On the record, it looked as if U.S. shotputters might finish one-two-three at the Olympics this August in Rome...
...Ritchard went Around the World on 80 Pounds, at one point carrying his valet in his valise. Best of all was Songstress-Comedienne Tammy Grimes, summing up the history of American women in popular songs; her smoky voice got everything but the filter feedback out of that 18th century smash, Tobacco's but an Indian Weed...