Word: smacks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...current catch of crime-expose pictures. "Raging Tide" fearlessly rips the lid off the world's slimiest racket--commercial fishing. And because this is a factual expose, it takes you right to the spot where dirty work is being done; the action takes place on a fishing smack in the Pacific...
...these high "standing waves" that are under suspicion. They often contain winds that blow either up or down at 4,000 ft. per min. A down-draught of such violence can smack down a high-flying airplane against a chunk of rock before the pilot realizes he is anywhere near a mountain. Sometimes his altimeter (which measures air pressure, not actual height) gives him no warning; the turbulent waves in the lee of high mountains often have spots of rarefied air that make the instrument read much higher than it should...
...Television's shaggy old movies and annoying commercials are already driving people back to the movie theaters (look at the box-office figures). Said one spokesman: "They're getting tired of watching Charles Laughton, as King Henry the Eighth, tossing a chicken bone over his shoulder-smack into a singing bottle of 20th Century beer...
...series of routine movie roles, worked hard to lose her Southern accent, finally got a solid part in Whistle Stop with George Raft. Then little Ava ran smack into a hazard relatively rare in Hollywood-an Intellect...
After a skittish mare kicked Oregon's Republican Maverick Wayne Morse smack in the mouth at the Orkney Springs, Va. horse show, Washington reporters called at the Naval Hospital in Bethesda, Md. to see how the Senator was feeling, got their answer in a written note: "I have learned to roll with political kicks and punches, but I haven't learned how to absorb the kick of a horse...