Word: smash
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Smash-Up. Susan Hayward, as a neglected wife, drinks and acts the picture under the table (TIME, March...
...Smash-Up (Walter Wanger; Universal-International) could be mistaken, on its surface, for just another of those wife-v.-secretary "problem" movies which are called, with unconscious contempt, "woman's pictures." But beneath its soap-opera surface, it takes some perceptive looks at a marriage going to pieces...
...husband, by neatly spaced degrees, becomes surprised, bewildered, alarmed, angry, ashamed, disgusted, vindictive-but never by any chance willing to recognize his own part in the disaster. Short of spiraling depravity or suicide-and short of the debatable happy ending-their smash-up is notably thorough and well-documented...
...Operation Torch convoys, and still others (since this is a naval history only) deal more fully with the beach fighting and the land battles. But no other book shows as clearly what a slam-bang gamble the invasion was, and how easily-and tragically-it might have gone to smash...
...nullify the elections because of widespread violations of law, and would possibly forward a protest to the Big Three, who had guaranteed free elections. But Mikolajczyk himself could only look forward to being kicked out of the Government and waiting to see how far the Government would go to smash his party and end his opposition for good. Said he, mulling over a TIME report (Dec. 9) that had said he had "the highest popularity and the lowest life-expectancy" in Poland: "Lowest life-expectancy. It's true, it's true. But still, it's cruel...