Word: smacks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Italy admits to having 40,000 volunteers in Spain, competent neutrals estimate not over 80,000, but on escaping to France last week in a fishing smack, famed Leftist Belarmino Tomás announced with a fine Spanish flourish, "110,000 Italian troops were responsible for Franco's capture of Gijón and northwest Spain...
Adjourning to the roof of the Central High School near the hospital, Photographer Menken again had a bombing raid drop very nearly in his lap. "This time they headed smack for the hospital. Suddenly the leader went into a power dive and pointed directly where I was standing. Two bombs dropped from the plane and I could hear them coming for the building with that terrible whishing sound that says, 'This is Arthur's, this is Arthur's!' I ducked behind a door just in time. My car, which was next to the gate, was punctured...
...right smack on a tack I woodn't aben more surprized then I wuz ter larn how many TIME readers wuz former apple butter stirrers. Why, shucks, th' mailman thot Xmas was here already, jedgin from th' extra letters he's had ter deliver...
...goal Sonny both playing Back. In the first two chukkers, Sonny succeeded remarkably well in holding back Greentree's Tommy Hitchcock, Pete Bostwick and Gerald Balding. Cousin Jock was less successful. In the third chukker Sonny suddenly cut in, took the ball away from Hitchcock, swung his mallet. Smack! The ball scooted between the goal posts for the only Whitney-made score of the match. By the end of the seventh chukker, Old Westbury, with the aid of Mike Phipps's five goals, was leading Greentree...
...Yonai. Smack next to the Prime Minister of Japan on such dress-shirt occasions as the formal opening of Parliament, sit the Minister of the Navy and the Minister of War. Other Cabinet officers form no more than a decorative background of gold lace. Since last February Japan's Navy Minister has been Admiral Mitsuniasa Yonai, or more formally Yoniuchi-a descendant of the samurai, member of the blue-blooded Satsuma clan and grandson of the extremely wealthy Baron Kentaro Okuma, developer of the South Manchuria Railway...