Word: smash
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...house and strip it while she lies weakly watching, strip it to the walls and leave her there alone with nothing but a bed to die on. And at the climax of the film the mine and all the money the young man has sunk in it go smash in one catastrophic afternoon...
...actual play-Broadway's new smash comedy Luv-begins, Harry is up on the railing of the bridge, teetering and ready to jump. When his old friend walks up to him and says, "Is it? -No! Harry Berlin! . . . How've you been doing, Harry?" the emphatic incongruity of the moment touches off a wave of mad laughter. The tone of the play has been perfectly...
...source is To Katanga And Back by Conor Cruise O'Brien. According to Mr. O'Brien, the code name for the operation was Morthor, a Hindi word which does not mean "put out the fire in the garage," or "defend yourself". It means "smash." Mr. O'Brien can hardly be accused either of ignorance or of pro-katagese bias; he was the U.N official in charge in Elizabethville during the operation. His only major objection to the way Morthor was handled was that the lie, invented after Tshombe had eluded the U.N. and the operation had apparently failed, made...
...merely "designy" products. What's corny should appear corny and what's serious should appear serious. When I looked at one display of a mightv locomotive dematerialized into a layercake of red and white stripes which visually couldn't make up its mind whether to pull the train or smash the cars behind it, I began to wonder how clear such standards...
...forefront of the pro-Goldwater forces was Josef Mlot-Mrox, president of The Anti-Communist Confederation of Polish Freedom Fighters in U.S.A., Inc. He bore a large metal cross that said, "Vote Barry. Our Goal--Smash Communism." By the end of the rally it also had many Johnson stickers...