Word: smash
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...else who put poor, passive Hitler in a mood to fight. "Provoked" by the Austrian Chancellor, Kurt von Schuschnigg. Hitler improvised the invasion of Austria almost overnight, as proved by the fact that 70% of the German transport broke down on the way. When Hitler ordered his generals to "smash" Czechoslovakia, it was merely a "momentary display of temper." The real culprits, Taylor implies, were the men foolhardy enough to stand up to Hitler. Poland's Foreign Minister Jozef Beck had such "great power arrogance" about his little nation that he tricked Britain into the foolish defense pact that...
Presumed Married. Juan Perón, 66, ex-Dictator of Argentina, who long publicly shunned another marriage for fear it might smash his daydream of returning to power in the nation that once wanted to canonize his late wife Evita; and Isabel Martinez, 27, petite blonde "secretary" who has been his constant companion since shortly after his 1955 ouster and whom he began introducing socially as "my wife" after Christmas Eve Mass in Madrid; under unknown circumstances but probably in Panama soon after Perón's eviction from Argentina; he for the third time, she for the first...
...house where she was sleeping. In the tumult that followed, he managed to whisk her off to a nearby hayloft. The war with Napoleon was just what Paget's exuberant spirits needed, and he whipped the British cavalry into a crack fighting force. He was watching his men smash the French at Waterloo, standing next to the Duke of Wellington, when he was hit. "By God, sir, I've lost my leg," he exclaimed, according to legend. Wellington lowered his telescope and replied, "By God, sir, so you have," and screwed the telescope back...
...Leontyne Price and Anna Moffo had to go to European houses to learn how to sing with professional skill. A major exception to that failing is Soprano Phyllis Curtin, who made an immensely successful Metropolitan Opera debut this season in Cosi fan Tutte. Soprano Curtin was also a smash in Europe before she came to the Met, but her European success merely topped off a career patiently built in America. Last week, as she followed a superbly rousing performance of Strauss's Salome at the Vienna Staatsoper with another performance of Cosi in Vienna, that career looked increasingly like...
...year that saw the hip little world of Author Norman (The Naked and the Dead) Mailer, 38, go clamorously smash -from last November's stabbing of his wife to his ignominious ouster from a February poetry reading for an alleged "raw recital of filth"-was ending amid the sweet smell of vindication. A Manhattan judge who likes to "gamble on human beings" last week gambled on a suspended sentence for confessed Spouse-Assaulter Mailer. Simultaneously, Mailer's Manhattan publisher, G. P. Putnam's Sons, was venturing a different sort of risk: release of the first collection...