Word: smashes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this would throw our country into a state of alarm which would make the effect of the Pearl Harbor attack seem like a W.C.T.U. picnic. . . . There would be no reconversion- only armament. We would insist that Russia either share the secret or "destroy every atomic bomb, smash every facility for making another," before a basis of unity could be established and the U.N. fulfill its proper function...
...much sex as sumptuousness that made C'est de la Folie a smash hit. In threadbare postwar France, Producer Paul Derval had staged a revue that made many Broadway productions look like sideshows. The quantity of material used for the 1,200 costumes could be measured in miles, and quality surpassed quantity...
Once D-day had come and the Allies had their foothold in France, Montgomery decided, for reasons of "British credit and prestige," to smash the Germans at Caen without "the efforts of any Americans." He failed. "It was a defeat from which British arms on the Continent never recovered," writes Ingersoll. It was not even "a successful sacrifice play." When Bradley went ahead on his great sweep down through Saint Lô and east and north beyond Paris, the British "simply moved along the coast of France" from Caen to the Belgian border. Had Bradley been given ample fuel supplies...
...last week Nanette was the smash hit of the season, grossing 210,000 francs ($1,763) a performance-a terrific take for present-day Paris. Entire families, from grand' mère down to ten-year-old Gabrielle, were trooping to see the show. They were seeing a spirited, shined-up Nanette. The Charleston-mad flapper of the '20s had become a Gallic jitterbug. In an atmosphere of glittering color and gorgeous chorines, Nanette (Claudine Cereda) writhed to boogie-woogie arrangements of Vincent Youmans' (see MILESTONES) I Want to Be Happy and crooned...
...breaker height until the trough begins to scrape sea bottom. Then, as speed is reduced by friction, the water piles up into steep, precipitous peaks. Last week in Hawaii eyewitnesses guessed the tsunami ran as high as 100 feet. Best estimate: 45 feet. Either way, they were enough to smash the city of Hilo on the exposed northeast side of the island of Hawaii, kill some 200 of its inhabitants, deposit 14 feet of silt in its harbor and wriggling fish in its coconut palms...