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Word: smashes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Smash Hit. In Bathurst, Australia, when the touring Vienna Choir Boys struck a high soprano note while singing in the Civic Theater, the ceiling cracked, causing mortar and bricks to -crash on the stage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Sep. 21, 1959 | 9/21/1959 | See Source »

...talks confidently of regaining the one that Yamanaka won away: "Next year I think I'll crack two minutes for the 200 meters, and I'll be aiming at 4:12 for the 400 meters." But the sudden emergence of Yamanaka gives swimming a triumvirate that can smash records in every freestyle event from the 200 meters up. In the 1960 Olympics at Rome, says Yale's Kiphuth happily, "the fur will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Fantastic! | 8/10/1959 | See Source »

...color pictures of U.S. life (e.g., seven cities, seven college campuses, etc., accompanied by Russian commentary and musical score). This unique process was invented by Designer Charles Eames. Watching the thousands of colorful glimpses of the U.S. and its people, the Russians were entranced, and the slides are the smash hit of the fair. Another big attraction: IBM's RAMAC 305, an electronic brain that produces written answers in flawless Russian to any of 4.000 questions about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE U.S. IN MOSCOW: Russia Comes to the Fair | 8/3/1959 | See Source »

...mortal. I want children of my own." The dialogue is typical of one of the funniest pictures to reach U.S. screens in years-although the humor is not deliberate. A sort of Homeric Tarzan, heavy on sex and mixed-up mythology, Hercules is also the biggest surprise box-office smash in Hollywood's memory. Starring a onetime (1947) Mr. America named Steve Reeves, Hercules drew $900,000 in its first week when it opened in 145 neighborhood houses last month. This week, with a total of 600 Eastmancolor prints ready to go (largest order Pathe Labs has ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOLLYWOOD: All Muscle | 7/27/1959 | See Source »

...this local version of skokiaan (called gavine) is often the only source of income for the "Shebeen Queens" who make it. Last week, when the Durban city council started transferring the people of Cato Manor to a new apartheid village farther away from town, the police moved in to smash the stills before the women could take them along...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AFRICA: Revolt of the Queens | 6/29/1959 | See Source »

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