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sky-busting
 v.— «It recalled he good old days of the fearful Murderers’ Row, minus, alas, all the old-fashioned sky-busting, except for Mr. Joe Gordon’s homer in the fourth.» —“First Blood” Washington Post Oct. 6, 1943. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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