Word: smote
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ryan O'Neal's careers since then--proof, I guess, that there is a God. Last year, as Ryan whined, "Love--(beat)--means never having to say you're sorry," the film got caught in the projector and a big brown blotch quickly bubbled over his face, smote, perhaps, by that great Film Critic...
...Williams rattled off a skein of six first-half baskets without a miss, finishing with a 'Cliffe season high of 24 points, as the cagers smote Regis 75-22 last night...
Anyone who has read the footnotes in his undergraduate Shakespeare knows that the meaning of the line "He smote the sledded Polacks on the ice" from Hamlet is disputed. While some manuscripts read "Polacks," most others read "Polax." Since there is no other reference to an incident involving Poles, critics generally agree that Shakespeare was referring to a heavy or "leaded poleax" that the king smote...
...course, something grimily banal and automatic about many of the racial stereotypes that salt the language. Yet sometimes they add a bit of savor. Are "French leave" and "Indian giver" to be expurgated? And what Bowdler at a performance of Hamlet will rise in protest when Horatio says, "He smote the sledded Polacks on the ice"? Should that be "Polish persons...
...Exodus, Aaron smote the waters of Egypt with his rod and the waters turned to blood. Across the U.S. in steamy midsummer, it seemed that at least a few of Pharaoh's plagues were descending-a reminder, if not of biblical wrath, then of nature's perplexing force...