Word: smash
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...system" goes roughly like this: a player in a major sport gets his big "H" even if he sees only five seconds of action against Yale--but an athlete in a minor sport, no matter how many records he may smash, has to be content with a small letter. And if a player in any sport misses his Yale game, whatever the reason, he doesn't get a letter...
...like the frightening scream from Miss de Havilland which rattles its sound track, an honest, accurate and dramatically powerful echo of certain ugly facts of modern life. It does what Hollywood has rarely done before: look harsh reality in the eye. Backed by enthusiastic reviews and smash box-office success in two big cities, The Snake Pit will be released next month throughout...
...Communist Party Clubs at Harvard formally stated, "It is clear from Mr. Fisher's revelations that the Young Republicans are out to smash the NSA . . . If the NSA program on student needs, segregation, academic freedom and international student cooperation were to be carried out in full, then NSA would . . . conflict with those reactionary elements in government and university administrations which the HYRC champions...
...front-line sergeant-entertainer with the Third Army in Germany. Through an interpreter, Shriner tried out his humor on the Russians. One joke they laughed at: "The mail service in our unit is very good. The mailman delivers packages to us as fast as he can smash them...
...Tallulah Bankhead mugs, flings, shouts and croaks her boisterous way through an outrageously florid, outrageously amusing imitation of Tallulah Bankhead. Many a mediocre play has been dragged beyond its deserved life span by Tallulah's gaudy brilliance, but this time she has turned one into a smash hit singlehanded...