Word: smashingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Edwin P. Christy has been long forgotten by all but a few devotees of the early minstrels. Not so the name of one of his proteges, Stephen Collins Foster, some of whose best-loved ballads were popularized by Christy. If the New Christy Minstrels can develop a smash hit like Oh, Susannah or Old Folks at Home, both of which were first presented to the American public by E. P. Christy's minstrel troupe, they will deserve to rank with their illustrious predecessors...
...ruin and anarchy if his warnings were ignored. Asked if he would use federal troops to prevent the secession of black-dominated Northern Rhodesia, Sir Roy replied, "the only time one would use force would be to maintain law and order. One would not stand by and see things smash. But if you are asking me whether I would use force to keep the two Rhodesias together, the answer is no, because it would not work...
...deadliest. At the climax, Rod Taylor has barricaded his house, nailed planks over the windows, locked the doors, lighted a fire against invasion down the chimney. Suddenly, out of the stillness, comes the thud of heavy bird bodies hurling against the walls, the crashing of glass as birds smash windowpanes, the splintering of wood as beaks peck through the door. One gull manages to wriggle inside a window barricade; before Taylor can strangle it, his arm and hand have been bloodied. The sound track -there is not a note of music throughout the picture-reaches a deafening crescendo of screeching...
While Harvard may not sustain the incredible .277 batting average that allowed it to smash just about everyone last year, there should be enough residual plate power to support a potentially superb pitching staff...
Divorced. Robert Goulet, 29, Canadian-bred baritone turned U.S. stage (Cam-clot) and nightclub smash; by Louise Longmore Goulet, 29; after seven years of marriage, one child; in Juarez, Mexico...