Word: smash
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...face. Born in North Carolina, he started as a disk jockey in West Virginia, first hit it big in 1953 on Detroit's WXYZ-TV, where his TV antics cadged kids into eating lunch. Then he transplanted to Hollywood and bloomed on. He was such a smash that the stars lined up to get smacked by one of Soup's foam-filled pies. Things were going so well that ABC put him on the network. He bombed out. Then last fall a local New York channel tried...
Died. General Henry Duncan Graham Crerar, 76, Canada's foremost soldier, who led the probing but costly Dieppe raid in 1942, got his revenge in command of the First Canadian Army on Dday, went on to smash the German hinge at Caen, then swept north along the coast through Belgium, clearing the Channel ports and storming across the Rhine into Germany; of a heart attack; in Ottawa...
...plays and 158 TV shows, it is mostly just something dimly recalled from the grey of the co-credits. But no more. Because Playwright Neil Simon knew him, ad mired his work, and wrote the role specifically for him, Matthau, 44 is now starring in Broadway's new smash comedy The Odd Couple (TIME, March 19) and he is so belly achingly funny as a loutish sportswriter that no one will ever forget him again...
High jumper Chris Pardee and pole vaulter George Winters were the record breakers for the Crimson. Pardee cleared 6 ft, 9 in. on his third and final try to smash Olympian John Thomas's record of 6 ft., 83/4 in. that had stood since...
...tuff), tough head, tough fox or stone fox. If the boy is a blip, he is said to be whipped by an ugly stick. But if boy and girl are stoked about each other, they mouse or scarf, which is the same as playing huggy-bear, smacky lips, smash-mouth and kissy face...