Word: smashes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...said an Air Force spokesman, is "well below nominal"-nominal meaning, in the strange new vocabulary of the Atomic Age, equivalent to 20,000 tons of TNT. But even a "well below'nominal" air-to-air nuclear rocket could destroy a whole flight of enemy bombers with the smash of its shock wave...
...currently showing 300 of his treasures at the Orangerie des Tuileries is, truth to tell, an amateur of art with the best of taste." For once the rest of Paris' many-hued press was in agreement ; the Louvre's guest show for the summer was a smash hit and the talk of Paris. Editorialized Carrefour: "We would like the purchases of our museums to be inspired by a taste as severe as that of which M. Robert Lehman today gives us such dazzling evidence...
When Rebel Leader Fidel Castro came down from his 150-mile-long Sierra Maestra hideout last month to smash an army garrison. President Fulgencio Batista launched a "campaign of extermination." Since then, the rebel band has not been sighted, let alone exterminated. Last week Batista sent a new field commander, Colonel Pedro A. Barrera Perez, to put an end to the six-month revolt...
...golden ears in exhaust fumes, cocktail onions.and punched commuters' tickets, cornfed Author Richard Bissell, who came east from Iowa to write the smash Broadway hit Pajama Game, decided to abandon Connecticut's exurbian lotus groves, take a summer's furlough in his native Dubuque. His reason: "The East seems to have a corner on the phony market. These characters are afraid they might be caught not knowing something. Some of these advertising guys-real phonies-would be better off running a gas station. You've got people going to the theater here simply because they ought...
...might have happened at any moment between waking and sleeping. Black and his beastly pirate crew land on the island of Ooroo ("It sounds like the eyes of a couple of ghosts leaning against an R," shudders Black) and proceed to knock the 0 out of everything. They smash in doors and cupboards, rip roofs off houses, dismantle towers, drain pools and ponds. But all they find are opals and moonstones, not the valuable, 0-less gems they seek, such as sapphires or emeralds or rubies...