Search Details

Word: smashes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

Kirkland dominated the third period with Slug Dolan and Dick Larkin threatening several times with long runs through the line. But the Deacons lost the ball in their own territory on a fumble early in the fourth period, and Eliot scored its final touchdown on an off tackle smash by Fred Rinelander...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Eliot Wins Again; Hutch Band Spurs Team to Victory | 11/2/1950 | See Source »

...treads off U.S. tanks and convoys were held up under fire for hours at a time. Air and artillery support could not take all the burden off the troops on the ground. Rockets from F80 Shooting Stars set dry grass and bright autumn foliage ablaze, but failed to smash some Communist redoubts. In the first day of the attack the cavalry took many casualties, moved little more than a mile beyond the parallel. Said one officer: "It's been rough work, rougher than we expected. We had hoped to be 25 miles into North Korea by this time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF KOREA: No Stop | 10/23/1950 | See Source »

Charley Law's team managed to score first, as Lurry Boles tallied on an off-tackle smash. But then the prep school team, led by Tom Tolan and Pete Kenney, counted three times to win. The Yardlings scored twice more, but both touchdowns were nulified by penalties. Law praised the playing of Ken Simmons and Bob Maier...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "B" Team Bows | 10/14/1950 | See Source »

...done as much as any man to stir the workers' rebellion against the sweatshops, came out to face the crowd. "Whose windows do tailors come to break?" he demanded. "It's just like a husband who comes home angry and fretful ... whacks the kids around and smashes dishes . . . Will he go into any other house to smash the dishes? No, he goes to his own home. This is your home, for the Forward is your paper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Follow the Leader | 9/18/1950 | See Source »

...their first visit to the U.S. last year, Britain's Sadler's Wells Ballet scored a smash hit (TIME, Oct. 17 et seq.). When the company arrived in Manhattan last week for a return visit, Director Ninette de Valois made a politely deprecatory little speech. "We may not be as good as you remember us," she said. "Perhaps we have come back too soon." She had impressive evidence to the contrary. When the golden curtain at the Met fell on the ballet's brilliant opening-night performance of Swan Lake this week, the packed house...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Return Engagement | 9/18/1950 | See Source »

Previous | 45 | 46 | 47 | 48 | 49 | 50 | 51 | 52 | 53 | 54 | 55 | 56 | 57 | 58 | 59 | 60 | 61 | 62 | 63 | 64 | 65 | Next