Word: smash
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...great speed of planetary flight (the earth's is 18 m.p.s.), a collision between the earth and a moderate-sized asteroid (diameter: 100 miles) might well smash a continent...
...Play Cards? The Austrians like the Americans well enough. Viennese, who have good-naturedly renamed jeeps Schlampenschlepper (hussy buggies), fraternize with zest. But Austrians live in an old, proud civilization, still sprinkled with feudal glitter; while they fear that Russia might smash it completely, they are not so sure that the Americans, with their strange, casual-tough ways, might not harm it too. They would like to get rid of all occupiers, Eastern and Western alike. Viennese cabaret skits express their mood. Samples...
Terence Rattigan was just 24 when he sold his first play. It was a fribble thing called French Without Tears, but the customers liked it. A smash hit, it ran for 1,030 performances in London (1936-39), 111 in New York...
Diadems & Dunce Caps. Oscar Hammerstein II was almost mythically affluent, with a producer's or librettist's haul from five smash hits: Oklahoma!, Carousel...
...Great Books" had long ago scored a smash hit before the undergrads on the University of Chicago's Midway 'TIME, Oct. 24,1938). Last week it was on he road, to play to adults, on a four-city circuit. Chicago's Chancellor Robert Maynard Hutchins expects the idea to spread, within five years, to 150,000 people in 36 cities...