Word: smash
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...while they talked at Vienna, the world changed about them. When the talking began, Russia and Austria were the major European land-powers. But when Napoleon escaped from Elba, the Russian armies had dribbled home; Austria was occupied in Italy. Only England and Prussia were set to smash Napoleon at Waterloo, and their joint victory made Prussia a major nation, England the most powerful country in Europe...
...Hall, which used to show 20 pictures a year, last year showed only seven. This boosted the revenue per picture and per dollar investment enormously. It had also enabled studios to cut down on picture making, dole out the pictures already on its shelves. Item: Paramount's current smash moneymaker, Two Years before the Mast, cost only $1,000,000 to make two years ago, about half of what it would cost today...
Said Georges Bernanos: "Europe has not another fundamental reality today than the black market. ... It is becoming a civilization of hands, hands to beg, hands to take, to steal, instead of being a civilization of souls. Machines are such hands, the atom bomb is such a hand, formed to smash the world. Why have we a bomb to destroy a city in one minute and no machine to construct a city in the same time? . . . The world cannot be saved by machines or by popular masses. It can only be saved by free...
...Wherein the 21 republics agreed to take joint action against any state that might attack, or prepare to attack, one of them. In supplementary resolutions, the republics resolved to smash Nazi activity and, at request of a U.N. member, turn over Axis agents to the Allies...
...dive or spin. Down it screams. Shock waves buffet its wings, claw at its tail surfaces. If anything cracks, a flashing light on the television screen tells what part has yielded. No life is lost, and every detail of the plane's experience, up to the final smash if it comes, is accurately recorded...