Word: smote
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...books always ended there. But there was more to come, dear reader. Back home in Shea Stadium a few days later, the Mets rose up and smote the fearsome San Francisco Giants, 4-2, before 55,062 wildly cheering fans. It was the biggest crowd of the year in either league. Now that kind of a house deserves an encore. And so next day, the Mighty Mets walloped the Giants once more, this time by a score...
...There was a perceptible silence. Then Master Johnson, age nine, piped up, "There isn't any Mrs. Johnson. One's dead and one's divorced," adding hopefully, "but Daddy's got a girl friend." As the silence turned glacial, Mr. Hallowell rose from his fireside, smote the roadside restaurateur smartly on the back, and speaking for the first time said, "Bully for you, Johnson...
...every area of her life, the M.W. is damned if she does and damned if she doesn't. This has been so since the days of Moses, when God smote Miriam for murmuring. If she's retiring, she's "backward"; if she's a leader, she's got her "nose in everything." If she is devoted to her family, she's ''making idols of her children"; if she's immersed in church work, she's "sacrificing her children...