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Word: smacking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...border terrain. Though the siege last week was lifted and Ben Het remained in allied hands, the results were far from reassuring. "You can see it happening all the way to the beaches," said one U.S. general. "As we move back, they will inch right in behind us and smack hell out of whatever ARVN unit we leave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: The Lesson of Ben Het | 7/11/1969 | See Source »

Wrecking Ball. After a series of sexual skirmishes, Joe finds himself smack in the middle of the country he left: despair. As he wanders, he comes upon Ratso Rizzo (Dustin Hoffman). A septic, crippled thief, Rizzo lives, like his nicknamesake, in the upper reaches of a condemned building, waiting for the wrecking ball. In a sense it has already arrived. Though he nourishes fantasies of a future in Miami, Ratso is too frail to last the winter. With a final galvanic reach for life, he extends a greasy hand -and Joe Buck takes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Movies: Improbable Love Story | 5/30/1969 | See Source »

Only captain Pete Heydemann returns from the Eli squad that Harvard dumped 6-3 last year, and the reserves and sophomores that coach John Skillman has plugged into the singles ladder smack of inexperience...

Author: By John L. Powers, | Title: Netmen Take On Yale in Final Tilt | 5/16/1969 | See Source »

...other chick said, "Do you have any records?" A blonde chicksie, too delectable for smack. Billy giggled...

Author: By John Leone, | Title: Last Stop. | 5/9/1969 | See Source »

...blues rolled in and out of the room, but Billy boy was already coming back from six hours of nothing into the world where people fight, choose up sides, care, act inexplicably. When you love the world you hate, and must punish yourself for it, there's always the smack train, gets you there in no time, no space, nothing...

Author: By John Leone, | Title: Last Stop. | 5/9/1969 | See Source »

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