Word: basher
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Howe is the same "Bashful Basher" from Floral, Sask., who signed a Detroit contract at 16 for $4,000. "I've changed my sense of values since," grins Howe, who at an estimated $30,000 a year is hockey's highest-paid pro. Yet he is still blushingly polite to fans. At a celebrity golf tournament in Ontario, a clubhouse attendant asked him for an autograph to take home to his son. Howe was halfway to Detroit before he remembered the request; abruptly, he drove back to the golf course, sought out the attendant and gave...
...Guns of Navarone. Director Carl Foreman leaves out no gunpowder cliche in a World War II dash-and-basher, but tells his absurd tale with great skill; and Gregory Peck, David Niven and Anthony Quinn pull off their caper in rousing style...
...Guns of Navarone. Director Carl Foreman leaves out no gunpowder cliché in a World War II dash-and-basher, but tells his absurd tale with great skill, and Gregory Peck, David Niven and Anthony Quinn pull off their caper in rousing style...
Wisps from the Pipe. The hassle was an old story to the U.N. staff in Leéopoldville. Brawny, racist-minded Diplomat Welbeck, once Kwame Nkrumah's top political skull-basher back in Ghana, had long been one of Léopoldville's biggest troublemakers. At Nkrumah's bidding, he shot about the Congolese capital lining up all possible support for Colonel Mobutu's archfoe, deposed Premier Patrice Lumumba, and was helped in his endeavors by the curious policy of the U.N. Command's Rajeshwar Dayal who offered U.N. protection to virtually everyone save working...