Word: smash
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...more power to throw in than he had already shown, he probably aimed to smash up the First Army's manpower, supplies and communications sufficiently to immobilize it temporarily (three to six months). If, after accomplishing this limited objective, he succeeded in extricating his armor and infantry, he would have nailed down his minimum victory...
...Normandy, the aim was to smash the German Army, to finish off the war in the west by quick exploitation of a break. For the Germans it was a case of stand and die-to make so many American and British soldiers die that another such battle could not be fought this winter...
...southern prong had been struck by air attack, was plowing on. Before it stood the heavy firepower of Vice Admiral Thomas Cassin Kinkaid's Seventh Fleet. The Seventh would stop it, and smash it to bits in the twelve-mile-wide gut of Surigao. The northern group, approaching San Bernardino Strait, had also been air-attacked. Airmen reported that it had been turned back...
...creator, may be Harvardmen, but this latest of the 1944 season's period pieces can hardly be called memorable. John P. Marquand '14 has collaborated with George S. Kaufman on a good and a very funny play, which, unfortunately, for itself, follows closely in the wake of the smash hit, "I Remember Mama,' and cannot help but suffer decidedly by comparison...
...Remember Mama (adapted by John van Druten from Kathryn Forbes's Mama's Bank Account; produced by Richard Rodgers & Oscar Hammerstein II) is the first producing enterprise of the great music-&-words team of Oklahoma!, the second smash hit within a year for the author of The Voice of the Turtle, and Broadway's pleasantest family album since Life with Father. Not really a play-it has no plot, no structure, no weightier crisis than an operation on a child or the chloroforming of a cat-Mama gets across as theater partly because it never struggles...