Word: smashes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Smash, Burn, Kill. It was a moment the Communists had been preparing for, a fact well known to Chief Minister Morarji Desai of Bombay State, who is often spoken of as Nehru's heir apparent. Before dawn, on Desai's orders, police arrested 435 Communist, Socialist and United Maharashtra Party leaders. The Communists had prepared for this eventuality, too. Secretly trained alternates swiftly swung into action. At their direction, hundreds of thousands of Maharashtrian workers dropped their work and swarmed out of dockyards, textile mills and railroad shops into the streets, shouting "Death to Nehru!" The rioters blocked...
Virginia Museum Director Leslie Cheek has no doubt that the museum's new Watteau will be a smash hit. Says he: "Virginians traditionally have a fondness for 18th-century decor and architecture." And in Watteau they are getting what Director Cheek calls "probably the most important work of art the Virginia Museum has ever acquired...
July. Marlon Brando will be a smash hit in Peter Pan. Liberace is refused, the lectureship going to Senator Knowland. The President of the Class of '96 will resign asking, "Whatever happened to us leftists?" In the world of food, Elsie will deny she owns Cronin's. The Hayes-Bick will reserve four tables for poets only and both Mike's Club and Harry's Arcade will remove food counters to make room for more pinball machines...
...Pasquale was an obvious success; with a good English libretto, it could be one of the Met's alltime smash hits...
State of Siege. At 1 a.m. on Nov. 1, 1954, the fellagha revolt began. At that moment, across Algeria, some 30 fellagha bands fell on the nearest French settlements and slit the colons' throats. The French sent armored columns to smash the fellagha, and the revolt seemed to fizzle out. Prefect Pierre Dupuch of the huge Constantine département announced that he had 8,000 troops and with 8,000 more could clean up the entire revolt...