Word: smashes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Quarry go the unruly convicts from other state prisons for twelve-month terms on the rock pile, a nearby granite quarry. From 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. (with three hours out for lunch and rest), under the eyes of hard-eyed guards armed with Winchesters and heavy sticks, they smash granite and push wheelbarrows. The discipline is as rough as the work. Five years ago 31 convicts staged a protest against both by slashing their heel tendons with razor blades...
...Revolution terror was justified: "It is a fact that the October Revolution would not have gone beyond the phase of civil war . . . if the proletariat had not shown indomitable will and the ability to take control of the apparatus of power of the Czarist state, to smash it, and to provide a substitute." But here Nenni runs into the dilemma of all Marxists: Once terror is accepted as a legitimate arm of government, how is it brought under control? The whole trouble, admits Nenni sadly, stems directly from the notion of the dictatorship of the proletariat...
Principal aim of Soviet foreign policy is "to lull the vigilance of the free world and to weaken its readiness to defend itself. Above all, they want to smash first the mighty, protective shield of NATO and to drive the U.S. from Europe so that Europe will fall like a ripe fruit into the Soviet...
Just as on Broadway, My Fair Lady is a smash hit of the record industry. On the market for nine weeks, Columbia Records had shipped some 200,000 LP recordings of the show (list price: $4.98) by the end of last week, and orders were coming in at a joyous rate of some 10,000 a day-or at about the clip of a good-selling pop single. Equally gratifying to showfolk was the advance order for two versions, single LP and big (3 LP) album, of Broadway's latest hit musical. The Most Happy Fella, which, at more...
Then a kindly, grey-haired producer jumps up and says he's got to have Twink in his play: "The only people who can play children are children." The kindly producer's kindly playwright writes in a fat part for Mama Girl, and at the smash New York opening, who should turn up but Papa Boy and Peter Bolivia Agriculture. Curtain. Clinch...