Word: smacks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Streaking out of low cloud cover just seaward of Haiphong, the U.S. Air Force Voodoo flew smack into a sky full of flak. As his reconnaissance fighter belched flame from its starboard engine, Captain Norman Huggins, 36, of Sumter, S.C., knew his search for North Vietnamese SAM sites was over for the day. He saw a finger-shaped island below him, surrounded by a wrinkled sea studded with enemy junks. The only hope for survival lay in his yellow and black ejection handles. Whoosh went the canopy, pow went the 37-mm. cartridge under his seat, pop went the parachute...
Poor Ernie. Even his best friends won't tell him. By rough count, Terrell hit Chuvalo 400-odd times smack in the face over 15 rounds last week-with a left jab that was curiously described by sportswriters as "savage," "snapping," "a bullwhip" and "the finest jab any heavyweight has shown since Joe Louis." Curiously, because Chuvalo didn't even blink. The best blow of the night was a butt by the Canadian that opened up a one-inch gash over Terrell's left eye. "He butted me deliberately," Terrell complained afterward. "He stepped on my toes...
Once, twice, three times, 102-year-old Silvano Faenza trotted around the vast perimeter of St. Peter's Square. Finally, after six suspenseful laps, he braked to a halt-smack in front of waiting newsmen. He had a startling message: the secret of his longevity, he said, was a lifetime of drinking beer. Beer in wine-loving Italy? Such gimmicks, virtually unheard of in the country until a few years ago, have doubled Italian beer consumption since 1958. The St. Peter's stunt is only one of many brought about by a new figure in European business...
This just had to be the loosest team in baseball. There they were, smack in the middle of one of the tightest pennant races in National League history, leading the league by 1½ games with four games still to play. Up in San Francisco, the second-place Giants had already beaten the Cincinnati Reds 5-3. In 15 minutes, the Dodgers were due on the field to take on the tough Milwaukee Braves. And what were they doing? Sitting around...
...From End Coach Red Hickey, he has already learned that his method of pass receiving was wrong. "I used to jump and catch the ball at my stomach," he says. "Mr. Hickey taught me that I gotta catch the ball on the run, or the defensive backs are gonna smack me good." From the Cowboys' all-pro end, Frank Clarke, Hayes has learned the proper way to catch "the bomb"-the high pass. "I used to catch it from the front, with my thumbs pointed together. Frank taught me to take it over my shoulder, just let the ball...