Word: smacks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...stage, from 1965 to 1972. "Satisfaction" was also a song about America, specifically, about fast women and grabbing for success. The drugs soon entered this fast-moving world, and the bad little boys began growing into the reputations carved out for them as early as 1963. Eventually, the dope, smack, uppers and downers, the busts and jail sentences, piled up to form a wall even the Stones could not scale. They stayed home from 1967-69, recording ever more varied and inventive albums--Between the Buttons, Beggar's Banquet. Let it Bleed, but remained largely invisible to the outside world...
...dissuade potential gays from pursuing an undesirable lifestyle. The GSA's demand that Pattullo apologize and that the University investigate his academic practices threw wide open the debate over the origins of homosexuality and in the absence of conclusive scientific answers, that debate drifts inevitably back to regions that smack of homophobia...
...Williams. There will be great pressure on the Senators to show that they have the will to enforce their own standards of conduct. But the Senate is a clubby place, and some members may push for mere censure or a reprimand. Many Senators think the FBI'S tactics smack of entrapment and wonder how they would have responded in Williams' place. Others resent the fact that Williams has not resigned. One thing is certain: few Senators will be smiling at the hour of judgment...
...that could batter the economy even lower. Some conservative economists predict that the result of the red ink will be higher interest rates. Says Burton Malkiel, an adviser to Gerald Ford and now dean of the Yale School of Organization and Management: "You have a $100 billion deficit running smack against a tight rein that the Federal Reserve has held on the money supply. That will push up interest rates...
...Gatwick Airport, stewardesses and ticket agents openly wept. Sir Freddie Laker, the swashbuckling British entrepreneur who had revolutionized transatlantic travel by slashing air fares, had abruptly announced that he was liquidating his debt-laden airline. Said one Laker counter attendant: "It's hit everyone, mate-like a smack in the mouth...