Word: smashup
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...smashup of French Indo-China in 1954 emerged four states: 1) Communist North Viet Nam, dark as night; 2) South Viet Nam, run by a strongly anti-Communist friend of the West; 3) the unpredictable Kingdom of Cambodia, which chose "active" neutrality; 4) a Red-riddled Kingdom of Laos, which felt it could afford nothing more dynamic than "plain" neutrality...
...full-dress rehearsal of last week's graduation parade at Sandhurst's Royal Military College, the hot-rodding Duke of Kent, 19, seventh in line to Britain's throne, marched smartly and looked none the worse for the recent wear and tear of his fourth car smashup in 13 months (Kent was at the controls in three of the crashes). After graduation (and orders to duty with the Royal Scots Grays), the Duke blushingly denied that his cousin, Queen Elizabeth II, had ordered him henceforth to do his landborne flying only with an experienced copilot...
Apprised of his untimely death last week after a studious grandson came across the encyclopedia item, grizzled Aviator Dorozynski, a spry 76-year-old who has been living these many years in Nice, recalled that he had suffered a rib-cracking smashup in 1912, but that he had lived on to enjoy a considerable career...
...last year, Cinemactor-Crooner Bing (The Country Girl) Crosby got set for the trial in a Los Angeles court, then abruptly decided not to make a fight of it. Though still denying the other side's charge that he was tipsy and driving recklessly when the predawn smashup happened. Defendant Crosby instructed his lawyers to settle the case out of court. They...
...Smashup, by Theodore Pratt (Gold Medal; paperbound. 25?). is a graphic reminder to drive carefully even when the life you save may not be your own. On the highways of a town called Center City, one car plows into another at 50 miles an hour. Score: one dead, one severely injured. The guilty party, a 200-lb., iron-willed matron, promptly sues the other driver (a young millionaire) for $300,000 on grounds that disfiguring injuries have ruined her daughter's budding career as a beauty queen and TV star. But two unexpected witnesses make depositions to set things...