Word: smacking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rifle bolts as the cops advanced. Ten yards from the marchers, they halted, donned gas masks. There was a pop, a thud, a flash of orange, then a smoky cloud. Soon, dozens of red, white and blue canisters loaded with tear gas and an antiriot irritant were sailing smack into the mob. Marchers scattered in confusion and pain...
...some, the long beatlemanes and Carnaby Street clothes for boys do smack of something girlish. Nonsense, protested Social Critic Marya Mannes, 61, in a commentary delivered at a Manhattan conference of the National Council of Women. "Hair is both manly and womanly, and the shock of hair on a boy is far more virile and decorative than the crew cut," she said. As for the fashions, observed Marya, who dresses sedately enough herself: "If it's sometimes hard to tell boys and girls apart in boots and sweaters and pants and hair -well, to some of us they spell...
...Holy suffocation! A year between Barbra's shows filled with hours of operating rooms, court rooms, bar rooms, Batmobiles. Deliver me from the whop, smack and zap in the bat cave and let me suffocate in such appalling overcuteness as Barbra. If that hour of greatness was a myth, spare me the realities of "My Mother the Car," my wife the witch, my father the fugitive, and your reviews...
...years ago, feudal Libya was written off as a hopeless non-nation-until oil was found floating beneath the deserts. Barren Mauritania may yet bloom from the rich iron and phosphate deposits in its crust. Some unlikely nations have been struggling along for many years-little San Marino smack in the middle of Italy, Haiti and the Dominican Republic-and there is not much hope that their situation will improve. On the other hand, a minuscule country like Switzerland, divided into several parts by language and custom, is proof that some fairly difficult obstacles to nationhood can be surmounted...
...head," recalls Westmoreland, "and told them their mission was to pursue and destroy the enemy." In the foothills of the Chu Pong massif, practically in Cambodia's backyard, the brigade found its quarry. Helilifted to a spot called Landing Zone X Ray, a battalion of cavalrymen found itself smack in the midst of the 66th North Vietnamese regiment. One platoon was cut off on a ridge and badly mauled. Two others were lured into a trap and wiped out; some of the U.S. wounded were shot or decapitated, and at least one was left hanging head down from...