Word: hacks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...curdle the hollandaise, lump the simple white sauce, hack away at that suckling pig . . . we'll take Julia and her savory shortcomings...
...shops of Harlem whip out their trusty Geiger counter and go lickety-click from Teheran to Geneva to Naples to Nice. En route they run a grim gauntlet of all-too-familiar thriller scenes (bang-bang on the Blue Train, hugger-mugger on the bad guy's yacht, hack-the-stripper in a nudie nightspot) and unpleasantly overripe chestnuts ("How'll we get there-take the midnight camel?"). By the time the heroes get the heroin the customers may find themselves in something of a narcoma. The very best that can be said about this picture is that...
Under the report's recommendations, interdepartmental committees would scrutinize the material now offered in the required courses, hack out a lot of it, organize what's left into a logical sequence, and ask a large number of professors to lecture individually on a little bit. Departments would use time and manpower saved to offer a variety of electives...
...young companion, whose hack-work with a soup spoon marked him as so: "Does it matter if you plant them up-side down...
This year, Reagan has subtly projected himself as the underdog; he ingenuously calls himself a "citizen politician," which somhow implies that Brown is merely a used-up, corner-cutting political hack...