Word: whacking
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...John moved on to the produce department, became engrossed in testing the hanging-type scales, decided they ought to be replaced with the counter type. Said he: "The others look better and they're not so apt to go out of whack with all that bouncing around...
...members continued to oppose Senator Paul Douglas' dogged efforts to whack some of the pork and patronage out of bureau payrolls, road projects, and reclamation dam plans in its huge ($32.5 billion) omnibus appropriation bill. Illinois' Douglas took his defeats philosophically. At one point when William Langer, standing next to him, was self-righteously arguing for flood control in his state of North Dakota, pumping out his reasons with his right arm, Douglas reached out and grasped Langer's hand and whimsically pumped along with...
...action. Once his conferees were startled on entering the office to find him prone on the floor under his desk. "I've got it!" he yelled exultantly as they entered. "The guy is under the truck. He's fixing a flat-he's like this. And whack! The truck slips off the jack and down onto his neck! It's great! Great!" Re-enacted on the screen by Richard Conte, Zanuck's performance made a grimly effective scene in Thieves' Highway...
Going into the stretch, Jockey Brooks drew his whip again, gave Citation a businesslike whack. "I wanted him to keep his mind on the race," said Brooks. Citation did. He ran down Bolero in the stretch, got home three-quarters of a length ahead. The tote board flashed the time: Citation had run the mile in 1:33 3/5, two-fifths of a second better than the world record set by his stablemate Coaltown at Washington Park last year. A moment later, the announcer verified what everybody at Golden Gate already knew: Big Cy had also beaten Stymie...
Queen Victoria was leaving Cambridge House in London one day in 1850 when a lunatic gave her a whack on the head with a cane, raising a nasty bruise. Popular