Word: smacks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Although Litton is the king of conglomerates, its Stouffer deal may smack of what Justice Douglas called "product extension." Litton is, among other things, the biggest maker of microwave ovens, and Stouffer is one of the more advanced frozen-food processors. Together, they hope, to create dishes that can be baked or broiled in record time...
Miss Williams designed a paper kiosk for art games or food stands. Hacker's sketches show balloons holding up the crests on the paper big tops which will stretch smack down the middle of Boston's Newbury St. on May, 7. The tents are supposedly strong enough to withstand the crush of art-lovers...
...Harvard swim team has run out of soft touches. This afternoon at Princeton the Crimson swims smack into one of the East's and the nation's best outfits...
...comes to English equivalents, Translator Frechtman has no luck at all. Genet, who is a practicing pervert and retired male prostitute, presumably knows the camp language exchanged by consenting adults. And it is hard to believe, for example, that a kiss between homosexual males should be described as "a smack"-a word which had some facetious currency about the time of Diamond Jim Brady and Lillian Russell. Criminal Hierarchy. Written in prison in 1943 and first published in France in 1951, the book creates an intense picture of Genet's closed world. France outside the walls practically ceases...
...answer has had to be based on precedent. Ever since Wright v. Mt. Mansfield Lift, Inc. in Vermont 16 years ago, it has been held that the skier assumes certain obvious risks when he starts down a slope. If he is unfortunate enough to run smack into a stump or a buried fence, it is usually considered not to be the fault of the stump or the stump's owners. Conversely, when a skier is heading uphill on a lift, the lift owner is usually liable for any injury suffered because of mechanical collapse or breakdown unless the injured...