Word: smacks
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...women cagers entering the final games of the season 10-13 overall and mired smack-dab in the middle of the Ivy pack...
Even by the tongue-twisting standards of the Star Wars lexicon, the newcomer is something of a mouthful: space-based kinetic kill vehicles, or SBKKVs for short. Some scientists refer to them as "smart rocks," since they are basically just projectiles designed to smack into enemy missiles. But they also have the potential of smacking into and perhaps even destroying the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile treaty. It is the alleged "stunning success" of smart-rock experiments, rather than any progress on the laser and particle- beam zappers usually associated with Star Wars, that has prompted Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger...
...farmers in trouble are not penniless tenants on somebody else's land; they are farm owners, capitalists who risked and lost, which is part of the game, no matter how dispiriting. And when the unionists cry out for protection from foreign trade to save their jobs, they run smack into the ire of those very same farmers, who know that tariffs on shoes or steel may mean further market losses for soybeans and wheat...
...true strength of this particular production of No Exit, however, lies in the raw talent of its actors and the sophisticated directorial influence upon them. These performances smack of professionalism. When Barrera's biting tongue exclaims, "I can't get on without making other people suffer," we believe her. Heck, we cringe at her every caustic outburst...
Quad residents have their own skislope: Newly erected Mount Radcliffe, smack in the middle of the Quad, provides Quadlings with alpine skiing right outside their door. Rumor has it that snowmaking will be installed next year (courtesy of the Cabot family...