Word: smacks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...race to rearm, the U.S. and other nations of'the free world have run smack up against a key problem: How should the free world's raw materials be divided? By overlooking this problem, while it tried to grab up a lion's share of all the strategic materials in sight, the U.S. has already stirred up a storm of hostility among its allies...
...report of the Massachusetts House Committee on Un-American Activities, and the address in question has been a furniture store for severay lears, but you can't be too careful in these dangerous times. This new pamphlet is essential for every American who is determined to smack down the ugly head of Communism wherever he thinks it ought to exist...
...liquor than to leprechauns, The King of Friday's Men has some of the old Irish gift of words, while Dowd has some of the mighty human dimensions of folklore. And Actor Macken, who first played the part at the Abbey, brings real vigor to it, and the smack and caress of Irish speech. But the play's snatches of racy prose do not offset its stretches of lumpish playwriting. Too often both untidy and oldfashioned, it closed after four performances...
...though such impudence may now & again smack of exhibitionism, it actually bespeaks a kind of humility: Fry wears his singing robes as casually over his street clothes as a judge does his bench gown. There is a saving exuberance and sense of fun about the worst of The Lady, as there is a soaring ease about the best of it. After the naturalistic theater's monotonous verbal drip-drip into a bucket, The Lady's Not for Burning makes a fine bright careless splash...
Switching Signals. On the western flank of the U.N. army driving into North Korea, the cavalrymen advanced over the 38th parallel along the highway to Kum-chon, a railway center 80 miles southeast of Pyongyang. They ran smack into what they then decided were the strongest defense positions in North Korea. On heights overlooking bends in the highway the Communists had built concealed concrete pillboxes and log revetments-some with walls eight feet thick...