Word: smacking
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...harpoon, smack in the flank...
ROBERT ROSOFSKY Brooklyn Sir: The frustration of the school crisis for me, as a U.F.T. member, reminds me of when my brother used to tease me and Mommy smacked me for retaliating. Please find out who's making whose life miserable before you smack the U.F.T. again...
...trick is to push hard with your upper arm," Tom, the treasurer of the Kayak Club, was enthusiastically telling his admirers. 'To roll a kayak, you have to make a wide sweep with your upper arm." Jennifer dove into the water with a resounding smack. "The water's great," she cried...
Vanderbilt's Alexander Heard: The university president is right smack in the vortex of a whole host of contentions and conflicts. It can be frustrating, and if you expect it to be rational, it can be maddening. But I am going to beat the job rather than let the job beat me-trying to be a university president is as important as anything in the country today...
...form or another: farm subsidies, rights of way for railroads, canals, dams and other public works that can make a community's future, defense contracts that cushion both businessman and worker. Yet ever-growing welfare costs and a troubled antipoverty program that has yet to buy civil peace smack of something for nothing. The unemployed, over-fecund recipients of the taxpayers' generosity seem ever less grateful, ever more pugnacious-just as organized labor grew more militant with each advantage gained. Where will it all end? ask many uneasy Americans. Will the second car or the boat be sacrificed...