Word: smash
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Thousand Goodbyes. In those long hours, the cabin of the wildly pitching plane became a stinking chamber of horrors. Many of the passengers expected to die, waited for the plane to open up with the smash of every sledging wave. Passengers and crew grew violently seasick, vomited helplessly on themselves and each other. Exhausted children were sick, fell asleep in the foul, chilly air, woke and were sick again...
...write bad scenes, but I never write impractical ones"). His first play (The Light, a drama about a small-town girl) left New Haven completely unmoved. His first success was Tickle Me in 1920. After three years and four flops came his first hit, Wildflower, and his first smash hit, Rose Marie (both with Otto Harbach...
Defensively Yale was masterful except for a peculiar five-minute lapse during which Columbia gained ground on running plays, completed wobbly passes, and finally, scored on an off-tackle smash for 28 yards by Ven Yablonski. The other 55 minutes saw the had-charging Blue line dumping Columbia's would-be hurlers onto the earth, the backers-up holding the trickiest ground thrusts to little or no yardage, and the backfield crippling the Lions with five (count 'em) pass interceptions...
Lucky Forward is likely to please only those who want to make a legend of Patton. Essentially it is a rewrite of Headquarters section reports into a kind of headline-writer's jab-&-smash jargon. It is jerky, often ungrammatical, unblushingly awkward: "The enemy's vitals had been pierced. An Armored poniard was stabbed squarely in the middle of his rear and athwart his main line of communications. . . . The enemy was beset from every quarter in a welter of triphammer blows, chaos, death, and destruction. On the ground and in the air he was mauled and ravaged from...
...tackle is a bulwark of strength on the line and after the football season is a heavy-weight leather-pusher in the ring. He gave a creditable account of himself in the Inter-Collegiate Boxing Association Championships at Penn State last winter, Hank Corrado, a triple threat fullback, can smash the line, heave a pass, or punt with the best...