Word: smashes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Soviet Union already are near a stage where each has the power to smash the other into radioactive rubble. Yet with hundreds of bombers soon to be poised for instant take-off with thermonuclear bombs, neither nation could be confident of its power to stay the other's deadly reflexes...
...Strike. The first crackle of Red guns in remote lands will be the signal for the U.S. to smash back on the ground, from the sea and in the air. But the initial shock will still be borne by troops of the attacked nation. They should be trained and equipped by the U.S. for a limited mission: that of keeping communications lines open, forcing enemy troop concentration, and hanging on for dear life until help arrives...
...Kleine Teehaus was one of the best. After 100 sold-out performances, The Teahouse of the August Moon was still a smash hit in West Berlin, will move next week to a more commodious theater. Berliners, wearily familiar with occupation armies, were delighted with an American play that deliberately spoofed the U.S. Army's postwar occupation of Okinawa (TIME, Oct. 26, 1953). When Sakini, the raffish Okinawan, declares that "democracy is exhausting," German audiences howl. The boffo line for Berliners comes in the scene where Colonel Purdy announces his determination to bring democracy to the islanders...
...Fancy Free and Melody Time-looked like mashed potatoes all right, but they didn't bring in much gravy. Disney's next big picture, however, made plenty: Cinderella may eventually outgross Snow White. And though Alice in Wonderland was a flop, Peter Pan was another smash hit. which exchanged Barrie sentiment for Hollywood slapstick and almost made the crocodile the hero...
...court reaching to the top of the building. An alumni who recently revisited Deadly was disappointed to find the first level sealed off from the rest of the court by a stone ceiling. "We pushed a plane off from the fourth floor once," he remarked, "just to watch in smash in what's now your living room." For a long period the available furniture came close to matching the piano, and the commuter found more fashionable surroundings in the "Day Rooms" provided at his expense in the houses. The pressure of the post war increase in students, however, forced...