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...through the managed-care red tape for a pair of eyeglasses or a simple ear infection. What would happen, they wonder, if they or one of their loved ones became desperately ill and needed serious--and expensive--medical attention? Who would prevail if their medical needs ran smack into gate-keepers of an HMO focused primarily on reducing costs? The horror stories coming back from the front lines are not encouraging. A sampling...
...have the rest of our lives to go to LL Cool J concerts. But when else do students have the opportunity to throw themselves onto a giant wall of Velcro, or smack each other over the head with giant foam boxing gloves? The corraling of legal-aged students into a special cage for beer drinkers may not have been the most aesthetically pleasing solution to the problem of providing alcohol, but turning the event into a "BYOB affair," as the staff suggest, is a recipe for disaster. And the MAC Quad was the perfect location for the festivities. Had they...
...necessarily homeless, and vice versa. In fact, if Tuck had conversations with some of the panhandlers that I have talked to, she would learn that many of them live quite comfortably. To be sure, these sorts of beggars are probably not the norm, but Tuck's inane generalizations still smack of guilt-wracked hooey. Tuck needs to give Harvard students more credit; the majority of us are already concerned about the problem of homelessness, but are averse to treating homeless people like they are animals in a petting zoo. ADAM R. KOVACEVICH '99 April...
...Pietraroia limestone beds near Naples, Italy, are celebrated for the exquisite fossils they've yielded up since the early 1800s--gorgeously preserved specimens of prehistoric fish and a few birds. No dinosaurs, though. While the rocks date back some 110 million years, smack in the middle of the terrible lizards' reign, not a single dinosaur bone had ever been found there. As far as amateur paleontologist Giovanni Todesco knew, that dismal record was still intact even after he unearthed a 9-in.-long specimen about a decade ago. The nearly complete skeleton, missing only its tail and the lower part...
...enough treble to project more than two inches from my mouth, loud parties require me to commit gross violations of people's personal space in order to be heard. Just to be sure I get my point across, I supplement my shouting with sweeping hand gestures that occasionally smack someone behind me upside the head. This, together with my penchant for incoherent rambling, often sends my way the accusation, "You are so drunk...