Word: smacks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tuesday night's accident at the intersection of Plympton Street and Memorial Drive brought the total number of automobile smack-ups in this area to seven within the last two months...
...some, these remarks may smack of religious jingoism, but we feel it is past time for American Catholics to be relieved from the oppressive burden of our Spanish brethren. We have spent weary hours cleaning up the blood the Spaniards overzealously spilt in the Inquisition. If they wish to call the cops on the Protestants four centuries late, they can take the blame themselves...
...Bevan may often have the streets with him, but inside the Labor Party he runs smack into the powerful antipathy of the conservative Trades Union Congress and Cooperative Union. Right now the trades unions are deeply concerned by Communist attempts to exploit workers' unrest over the sacrifices of rearmament. Last week coal miners in Tonypandy, in Nye Bevan's bailiwick of South Wales, called a mass demonstration against the government and appealed to Bevan to take part. Bevan saw his chance to ingratiate himself with conservatives in his own party. "I refuse," said he, "to partake...
...I.P.C. had plenty of oil, capital and cooks (too many). But its trouble was not over. Its fields are smack in the middle of nowhere, and the two pipelines to the Mediterranean were greatly inadequate. I.P.C. began building new lines. One, through Palestine, was stopped by the Arab-Israeli war, and has never been completed. Another, through Lebanon, was finished but quickly proved too small. A third, through Syria, ran afoul of Syrian government scheming...
...fours in signals position and try to push him over. One day the great director, John Ford, joined the game. Duke took his stance. With a deft kick Ford knocked his hands from under him, and the property man's face hit the floor with a smack. It was very funny. Everybody laughed. Duke got up, his face expressionless. "Let's try that once again," he said. Ford nodded. This time Duke charged forward, sent the director flying across the floor on his rear...