Word: smashes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...herself in a jungly world of high-pressure pluggers, struggling songsmiths and all-important disk jockeys. It was a world where she came to "own" only 75% of herself, with her managers and booking agents owning the other 25%. Above all, it was a world where the click or smash hit was the ultimate goal, where clearance (by payment to publishers' societies ASCAP and BMI) was necessary for permission to play a song on the air; a world where cut-ins (giving a performer a share of a song's profits), hot stoves (open bribes) and other forms...
...haben Shelley!" screamed the Gestapo agents, and as they threw their prisoner into a police car, began to smash their fists into his face. The treatment continued at Gestapo headquarters; it was refined to a point where Author Marshall drops the subject. To his own amazement, and to the complete confusion of the Gestapo, Yeo-Thomas did not once break down. When he felt himself near collapse, he tried to throw himself out of a window, but one of the torturers caught his legs and hauled him back...
Does your enemy need a smash...
...dead end inside the terminal. Though they are only 20 inches lower than the level of the vast concourse and the waiting room, the metal guards at the track ends will only stop a train going less than 30 m.p.h. There was a good chance that the Federal would smash across the concourse and the waiting room, killing dozens...
Essentially, it is a tale of two Dickenses that Biographer Johnson has to tell. One is a 19th-century success story, the other a saga of personal disenchantment. Success came to him with a smash at 24 with The Pickwick Papers. It swelled with each succeeding novel and never deserted him as he launched into weekly newspaper editing, amateur theatricals and public readings. In the end, he became a kind of king-of-the-hill of Victorian letters. At his death in 1870, he left ?93,000, in today's money something like a million dollars. But through...