Word: smacking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Running smack into Sabatino was the latest misfortune for the stick women, who came into this season with gobs of talent, but finished with the same 3-8-4 overall record they sported last year. Their Ivy record fell from 2-2-2 last year to 1-2-3 this season...
...wouldn't leave without a kiss. So Kimberly, a blonde college-age student with an evah so slight Southern drawl, leaned over the counter of the Tasty Diner in Harvard Square and kissed Karl Stevens, the late night grill cook, smack on the lips. The exchange was great entertainment for tasty patrons at 2:30 a.m. one recent Thursday night, what Karl calls the bar crowd. And the standing room only crowd cheered...
...over one of the more acrimonious Senate hearings in recent memory, but as he leaned back in a cushioned rocking chair, sipping a cup of coffee in his modestly decorated office, Richard Lugar seemed unperturbed, even placid. The Indiana Republican's composure belied the fact that he was caught smack between two formidable forces: the growing clamor in Congress for punitive sanctions against South Africa and the Administration's continued resistance to such measures. As both a loyal Reaganaut and an independent-minded chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Lugar found himself in the unenviable position of trying...
...unchallenged rule of professional ethics that a lawyer may not put on a witness who he knows is going to lie," explains Law Professor Phillip Johnson of the University of California, Berkeley. When the lying witness is the attorney's own client, however, the rule runs smack into another fundamental ethical rule -- a lawyer's obligation to protect the confidentiality of his client's conversations. Legal scholars have tilted back and forth over the issue. The currently prevailing view, endorsed by the American Bar Association, argues that the attorney should be required to blow the whistle on the client...
...credit, Pearson gives fair warning that his story is going to take some time in the unraveling and may indeed be more fun for the teller than the audience. While the death of the bald Jeeter is announced smack in the opening, the sad event is inched up on through a series of digressions, including one on the deterioration of the widow Mrs. Askew's drains and downspouts. Not until page 57 is the bald Jeeter laid to rest in the local cemetery of the fictional Neely, N.C., at which time it begins to become clear that the deceased...