Word: smacks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...know the United States very well, and after reading Clement Attlee's speech in full, I'm damned if he didn't hit the nail right smack on the head...
Back in 1938, Adolf Hitler decided to broaden Munich's Sonnenstrasse as a parade ground for his brown-shirted heroes. Smack in the center of the avenue was the Lutherans' 106-year-old St. Matthew...
...pitch came up to the plate waisthigh. The Yankees' young (21) Outfielder Mickey Mantle swung smoothly, put the full weight of his well-muscled (5 ft. 11 in., 175 Ibs.) body behind the blow. The smack of ball on bat echoed through...
...three incidents were the latest evidence of what Korean correspondents call "Operation Clam-Up," a restriction on the press which stems from an order by Major General Paul D. Adams, the Eighth Army's chief of staff. Adams, angered by unfavorable stories, e.g., Operation Smack and the uproar over the 65th Infantry (TIME, Feb. 2 et seq.), passed the word down that there had been too much "irresponsible talk" and that he did not want a "gabby" army...
Last week Jackson was playing host in the finals. Usually, Jackson races are run smack down the main street of town. But this year the streets were clear, so the racers borrowed a snowy pasture two miles from town and laid out a quarter-mile course. When the first flag went down at 1:30 p.m., close to 1,500 were on hand to watch...