Word: smashes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...days' fighting, the Turkish NATO forces had been theoretically forced back more than 60 miles to the Gallipoli Peninsula. Covered by planes and ships of the U.S. Sixth Fleet, the Marines brought in by helicopter heavy gear that parachutists normally could not carry, and then set forth to smash enemy forward positions, wreck supply lines and create such havoc that the beleaguered Turkish defenders of Istanbul could start rolling again...
...main difference between the two countries was in the aftermaths. In Honduras the junta leader declared his task ended, announced that he was taking a long vacation. But in Haiti the junta had to call out troops to smash a storekeepers' strike inspired by Déjoie supporters, the next day put Port-au-Prince under martial law-a move which aroused fears that Haiti's junta might not yet be ready to turn over power to civilian authority...
West Side Story hit Broadway after smash tryouts in Washington and Philadelphia, and boasting an advance sale estimated at $700,000. First-nighters-elegant, effusive, conscious of their roles and determined to be delighted-packed the big Winter Garden Theater and turned the opening into the gaudiest night of the new theatrical season...
...Girl in Black (Hermes; Kingsley International). Cyprus-born Director Michael Cacoyannis, 35, son of a corporation lawyer, got his theatrical education in London and won a Diploma of Merit from the Edinburgh Film Festival for his first picture, Windfall in Athens (1953). His Stella (1955) was a box-office smash in Europe. A Girl in Black, quite aside from its merits and demerits as art and entertainment, should give U.S. audiences some sharp new impressions of what life is like in modern Greece...
...then become the first to denounce him, Mikoyan has to be careful not to let the repudiation of Stalin get out of hand: the desire for revenge could easily devour all those who served him. Mikoyan was in the Kremlin group that flew to Warsaw last fall to smash the insurgent Gomulka -and found themselves encircled in Warsaw's Belvedere Palace by Gomulka's forces and compelled to agree to the Poles' demands. He was in the thick of the Hungarian action, where his slick manipulation was not enough: it took a tank-led invasion. The final...