Word: smacking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Tons of Danger. Sunday was a day of pure surrealist chaos. In Sag Harbor, a onetime whaling port, a fake whale was seen floating in the harbor; 15 pretty nurses lay down on three hospital beds set smack in the middle of the highway. But nothing matched the pandemonium on Montauk's bluffs. There the Montauk Fire Department's hoses and two foam makers were turned loose, sending gallons upon gallons of fire-fighting foam billowing down the cliffs. Joined by hardened surfers, who left their boards to join in the fun, Kaprow, like Moses, led his tribes...
...some hugs and kisses before being taken for a row on the park pond. As he pauses at the door, his mother says, "Throw me a kiss." Sam runs back into the room. "I wouldn't throw you a kiss," he murmurs, giving her a last affectionate smack...
...frug, and some young Europeans hit the roads as beatniks, much as alienated young Americans did in the early '50s. The U.S. influence, in fact, is sometimes a disruptive one in families abroad, where the desire of youths to imitate their freer American counterparts may run smack up against an authoritarian family structure. When Free University of Berlin students recently staged a sit-in, they asked an American visitor: "Is this the way they did it in Berkeley...
...boyfriend's lawyer. A: "Yes." Q: "This wasn't the first time you kissed, was it?" A: "No." But it was the last time with Airman Gary C. Hodges. As she told it, Mary had amiably gone along for a ride when, without warning, he kissed her. Smack! -the car wound up in a canal. Mary sued him for her assorted injuries, and the jury awarded her $7,500. Dismayed, Hodges took his kissing case to Florida's Third District Court of Appeal on the ground that Mary had willingly kissed back with a "reckless disregard...
...swiftness, disaster struck. On the par-three, 150-yd. 15th hole, Palmer's No. 7 iron shot strayed off line and caught a yawning sand trap to the right of the green. He bogeyed the hole, and lost two strokes when Casper curled a downhill, 30-ft. putt smack into the center of the cup for a birdie...