Word: bangs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...harbor through windows in the crown) into the 42-ft.-long torch-bearing arm, from which the public is excluded. At the statue's shoulder, Bowe reported, the Black Liberation boys could plant a few sticks of dynamite, detonate them with electrical blasting caps, and-bang!-in one blast the "damned old bitch" would be rendered both headless and torchless...
When U.S. jets began hitting North Viet Nam last week, the most surprised Communist of all was probably Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin. There he sat in Hanoi, exchanging pleasantries with North Viet Nam's Ho Chi Minh and chatting desultorily about possible Soviet military aid. Then-bang!-bombs were falling only 250 miles away. Aleksei was on the spot, and his position brought into sharp focus the whole question of Communist-bloc relations...
...spoofs the very same characters. In this one, however, the time is the 1930s rather than the '20s, and all the pretty young flappers have become sophisticated, cheating wives. The songs and routines are primarily parodies-of Cole and Noel, Fred and Ginger-and occasionally they are bang-on. But too often the emeritus flappers' old boop-boop-a-doop has gone poop; Wilson would do well to retire them before they are ready for The Old Man Friend...
When a northeast wind finally blew down the gulch, Boyer pressed the button. A cloud of grey smoke rose up with a ball of fire at its heart; out of it spouted flashes of light like giant Fourth of July sparklers. Observers heard a loud bang and felt a modest shock wave. As the cloud began to dissipate, three Air Force bombers swooped into it, collecting air samples. Then men wearing respirators and full safety suits stepped cautiously within 200 yds. of ground zero. Kiwi had disappeared. Nothing was left on the seared site but the railroad car with...
...peddle his own wife (Felicia Farr) along with his tunes, Walston drives her away and brings home a substitute, Kim Novak, who heads the navel armada at a local juke joint known as the Belly Button. Through a series of vinsavory miscalculations, punctuated by a parrot that squawks "Bang! Bang!" all too frequently, Martin gets the wife, the song plugger gets Kim, and Kim gets...