Word: smacks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...flair for electronic jabberwocky and oddball gimmicks, he throws in some wild Italian movies or stages a midget-car race on the studio floor. For the most part, though, Paar just talks with his guests, bringing to the wee hours a sometimes mordant humor and off-color japery that smack of the old radio days when Bob Hope used to get cut off the air, e.g., "I went to the ballet last night. After all, we can't all be Marlboro...
...second well. Last week, in Brooks County, Texas, still another well came in for the same three outfits, this one capable of producing 30 million to 40 million cu. ft. of gas daily on 1,600 acres of previously undeveloped land. But the Ohio strike was the most spectacular, smack dab in old Mike's backyard, not many miles from the Pittsburgh headquarters of an oil empire stretching from Canada to Africa...
...Gerhard Raebiger, he removed fuses from some 8,000 dud bombs, some 10,000 grenades. Through the years of reconstruction he was on call day and night, sometimes working 48 hours at a stretch on some particularly ticklish job. Once, when rubble removers uncovered a nest of three blockbusters smack in the middle of a heavily populated apartment district, he shoveled away the rubble himself to get at them; then for 18 hours he sweated out the delicate job of taking the fuses out of the lurking monsters. In May 1952, Stephan and Raebiger won the West German Merit Cross...
...rock upon which the Boers founded their great Afrikaner culture was the Dutch Reformed Church, a puritanical institution as sternly fundamentalist as the Dutch settlers themselves. Last week apartheid (segregation;, a latter-day fanatic projection of Afrikaner culture, ran smack aground the rock of the Reformed Church...
...Imperial Purple. In the Far East, where the press is still quick to smite down anything that seems to smack of colonialism (and anything white men do is likely to be interpreted as colonial), newspapers were less concerned with the broad, strategic repercussions of the riots than with their ostensible cause: the acquittal by a U.S. court-martial of a G.I. charged with killing a Chinese. The extra- territorial privileges enjoyed by American citizens on Formosa are "unendurable," said Singapore's leading Chinese daily, anti-Communist Sin Chew Jit Poh. Manila's biggest paper, the Sunday Times, agreed...