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High jumper Chris Pardee and pole vaulter George Winters were the record breakers for the Crimson. Pardee cleared 6 ft, 9 in. on his third and final try to smash Olympian John Thomas's record of 6 ft., 83/4 in. that had stood since...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Spikers Holding Lead in Boston Meet | 2/13/1965 | See Source »

...tuff), tough head, tough fox or stone fox. If the boy is a blip, he is said to be whipped by an ugly stick. But if boy and girl are stoked about each other, they mouse or scarf, which is the same as playing huggy-bear, smacky lips, smash-mouth and kissy face...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Students: The Slang Bag | 1/1/1965 | See Source »

...house and strip it while she lies weakly watching, strip it to the walls and leave her there alone with nothing but a bed to die on. And at the climax of the film the mine and all the money the young man has sunk in it go smash in one catastrophic afternoon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Bacchanalian Bash | 12/25/1964 | See Source »

...actual play-Broadway's new smash comedy Luv-begins, Harry is up on the railing of the bridge, teetering and ready to jump. When his old friend walks up to him and says, "Is it? -No! Harry Berlin! . . . How've you been doing, Harry?" the emphatic incongruity of the moment touches off a wave of mad laughter. The tone of the play has been perfectly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Broadway: The Nichols Touch | 11/27/1964 | See Source »

...source is To Katanga And Back by Conor Cruise O'Brien. According to Mr. O'Brien, the code name for the operation was Morthor, a Hindi word which does not mean "put out the fire in the garage," or "defend yourself". It means "smash." Mr. O'Brien can hardly be accused either of ignorance or of pro-katagese bias; he was the U.N official in charge in Elizabethville during the operation. His only major objection to the way Morthor was handled was that the lie, invented after Tshombe had eluded the U.N. and the operation had apparently failed, made...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Alternate Katanga History | 11/24/1964 | See Source »

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