Word: smacking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...example, through travelers on U.S. Highway 85 used to drive down curving Commercial Street, make a right-angle turn at Main Street, then inch their way out of town through heavy traffic. The Colorado highway department solved the problem, if not the esthetics, by building a huge overpass smack over the town...
...monstrous noise comes on and on and on and on, straight at the listener. His eyes pop open, his hands grip the arms of his chair in sweaty terror. His eyebrows shoot up past his hairline. As the final shattering wallop thunders in his head, the train runs right smack over him and he topples backward in a shuddering trance...
...different tone, in the wake of Nikita Khrushchev's Berlin blockbuster. East Germany's angry belligerence at the Brandenburg Gate had the incidental effect of propelling Candidate Brandt into the limelight and Candidate Adenauer into the wings. As custodian of the embattled city, Willy Brandt was smack in front of the TV cameras when Vice President Lyndon Johnson and the U.S. troop reinforcements arrived to bolster West Berliners' morale...
Despite all the soft comforts, one customer has found dangers: strolling past the taupe-gold-champagne Rotunda Reception Hall toward the Pompeiian Plaza, she became so enthralled by the decor that she tumbled smack into the Pompeiian pool. Fortunately, she had not yet changed into her Pompeiian gown and Pompeiian slippers. But she got antisepticized anyway...
...Cuba. But in order to invoke the declaration against Castro, the U.S. must persuade a majority of Latin American nations to agree to take "appropriate action"-or at least endorse such action by the U.S. In trying to get the Caracas declaration translated into action, the U.S. runs smack up against the old, ingrained Latin American taboo against "intervention...