Word: banged
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Chitty Chitty Bang Bang is a picture for the ages-the ages between five and twelve. After that, interest is bound to slacken into hostility or slumber. With valid reason. The movie, based on Ian Fleming's only children's book, is a story with enough saccharine to sweeten the Sargasso...
...Bang Theory...
...second time around a person gets more of a bang," explained Dr. Peter H. Knapp of Boston Medical School, in whose laboratories the study was conducted. "Is it because the smoker has learned to let go," he continued, "or is it that the drug is piling up in the nervous system? If so, it might cause physiological damage...
...uniform of the British colonial in Africa: highly polished shoes, long socks, neatly pressed shorts and starched bush jackets. Carefully holding themselves apart are several ex-RAF types, moustached and bearded, who punctuate their clipped, casual conversation with dated bits of Battle of Britain slang like "wack-o," "bang-on," "piece of cake...
...book is an extraordinary inside-outside-inside exploration of the process of composition, like a photograph of a man taking a photograph. Whitehead said that literature is that which embodies what it indicates. When that which is embodied is the act of embodiment, there is bound to be a bang, probably the reader slamming shut the book...