Word: smashes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After a few drinks, he liked to smash furniture and crockery. Once he invaded the apartment of a complete stranger and began breaking up everything in sight. When the police picked him up, his sponsors at the auto works telephoned in desperation: "Do you know whom you've arrested? Streltsov, our best footballer! For heaven's sake, don't make a fuss!" The plant even gave him a luxury apartment after he had tossed his wife and infant into the street, and the Moscow City Economic Council continued to shower him with bonuses. Edouard loved the high...
...farm boy happens upon them, leads them back to the burrow where he and his deserted mother (Cara Williams) live. The woman helps them smash the chain, spends the night with Joker Jackson, and persuades him to flee with her while Cullen heads overland to hop a northbound freight. In a scene that would be the worst sort of corn if the script faltered, Curtis learns that the woman has directed Poitier through a quicksand bog. Their painfully borne chain, even broken, has bound them irrevocably together, and Curtis plunges after him to sure capture by the law. Behind...
...institutions seasoned with just a soupçon of Salazar's Portugal. Implicit in almost every clause of the draft version is a profound determination to clip the wings of the negative and vacillating National Assembly which, under the Fourth Republic, used its untrammeled power to make and smash 25 governments in twelve years. Under the projected Fifth Republic, the Assembly would meet for only 5½ months a year v. the present seven, would be able to overturn a Premier only by means of a censure motion approved by an absolute majority. More crippling yet, the Assembly would...
...thought that the Columbia Broadcasting System would jump for The Music Man. CBS had made a mountain of money investing in hit shows and pressing musical albums; e.g., the company footed the $400,000 bill for My Fair Lady, collected both royalties and extra profits from the smash sale of My Fair Lady recordings. "These CBS executives filed in and sat down," Bloomgarden recalls. "They were cold and serious. Meredith went over to the piano and did Trouble. They just sat there without cracking a smile. Then Meredith did some other numbers from the show. They still sat on their...
Beirut was slow to rise. But in the northern Moslem stronghold of Tripoli, crowds poured from a mosque to pillage, smash and burn every unshuttered shop. Goaded by agitators, the mob gutted the U.S. Information Agency library; some seized a model of the Vanguard satellite from a desk and kicked it about the street in a grotesque soccer game. In the city's chief square, troops fired. Ten died...