Word: smash
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...careful examination of the movies of last fall's games may show Valpey when and why the disenchantment started. When spring practice rolls around shortly, he will like Billy Southworth when he switched from the pennant-fat Cards to the Braves smash any inferiority complex the team may have...
...Theater have received in New York during the last few years, and despite the favorable criticisms received by the company from the New York critics, there remains a tendency not to believe without seeing. Bostonians now have a chance to see at the Plymouth Theater, where 1947-48's smash, "Shylock and His Daughter," is staying for a five-performance...
...were about to perish for lack of air," said Finance Minister Rene Mayer last week. "We had to smash the window with a single blow." Mayer chiefly meant that, without devaluation of the franc (TIME, Feb. 2), French recovery would have been stifled through inability to sell goods abroad. But for a few days last week, Rene Mayer and Premier Robert Schuman had French Socialists at their throats. As advocates of dirigisme (directed economy), Socialists did not like the breeze of free enterprise that threatened to blow through the smashed window...
...cyclotron's up-to-date design will probably make it more powerful than its bigger (4,000-ton) rival at Berkeley, Calif. Columbia's physicists believe that their new gadget will smash not only atoms, but also the basic particles (protons, neutrons, etc.) of which atoms are made...
Rejects. In Pittsburgh, Ronald L. Hale escaped an auto smash-up with slight injuries, one embarrassment: he was knocked right out of his pants. In Jerome, Idaho, David Detweiler, in an accidental brush with a potato-digging machine, suffered no injury at all but was picked clean of everything but his shoes & socks...