Word: smashes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...took a step last week that may well smash a Latin American legend, assiduously nourished by the Communists, that U.S. policy in Central America is aimed exclusively at higher dividends for Boston's $579 million United Fruit Co., biggest business in the Caribbean. Under the Sherman Anti-Trust Act, the Department of Justice charged the company with operating a monopoly. In a civil suit it demanded that United Fruit 1) break up its present structure, and 2) give competitors a chance in the banana business...
...weight, 180 lbs.; waist, 33 in., chest 43 in. In his sinewy shoulders he still had the power to smash out 300-yard drives; his huge hands still contained the nuances that make chip shots fall where he chooses. He has acquired an ounce of caution-but only an ounce-that may cut a little drama from his game and save him a few Scoreboard points...
Templer's orders were 1) to smash the Communists, 2) to weld Malayans-Malays, Chinese, Indians and British alike-into a sturdy, self-governing democracy within the Commonwealth. Objective No. 2 was impossible in a scant two years, yet Templer pledged himself, "mind and body," to fight for this political, economic and social "second front." He brought to his job demoniac energy, a streak of ruthlessness, a flair for jungle fighting (he once was bayonet fighting champion of the British army) and a sensibility that dumfounded those leftist British critics who had objected to his appointment out of fear...
...show's jinks, in fact, that they almost render unimportant the primitiveness of its jesting; and so engaging are a number of its people that it doesn't too much matter what they do. As staged by George Abbott and Jerome Robbins, The Pajama Game is a smash-hit mixture of racehorse and explosive; not in a long time has any musical so merely competent seemed at the same time...
...rare motion picture magnate who can resist burdening screens with a sequel to any smash hit. Happily, the public has been spared an acquaintance with the Son of Fan Fan the Tulip. Instead, Rene Clair has taken the materials that made Fan Fan so entertaining--a fanciful script, Gerard Phillipe and Gina Lollabrigia--and gone on to new triumphs...