Word: socking
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...assured the rioting, burning Negro mobs that they had every right to 'regard the law as their enemy'?" On the left, the Village Voice's Jack Newfield, a noisy supporter of Kennedy, used the occasion to berate all the people who do not share his apocalyptic, sock-it-to-'em view of politics. Newfield felt "rage," he said, "at men like Archbishop Cooke and Eric Hoffer, who say America should feel no national guilt, because the assassin was a Jordanian nationalist...
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...crowd however, the words seem not to matter. Just as Bobby draws the same kind of abuse from skeptics that his brother did-charges of arrogance, ruthlessness, opportunism, a lackluster Senate record-he also elicits unstinted adulation from sympathetic audiences. Frequently he hears the war cry, "Sock it to 'em, Bobby!" (which has a sexual connotation to some youngsters), and he does. Bobby, 42, can be less formal than Jack, who was also 42 eight years ago but felt that he had to convince voters of his maturity. As Roman Catholicism is no longer a handicap in American politics...
...hopped, twisted and rolled over sideways without missing a twang or a moan. He slung the guitar low over swiveling hips, or raised it to pick the strings with his teeth; he thrust it between his legs and did a bump and grind, crooning: "Oh, baby, come on now, sock it to me!" Lest anybody miss his message, he looked at a girl in the front row, cried, "I want you, you, you!" and stuck his tongue out at her. For a symbolic finish, he lifted the guitar and flung it against the amplifiers...
...teenaroons, it's nostalgia time, as we move into the groove with the supersound of yesteryear! Let me sock it to ya - the Beatles, a pow-pow-pounding boogie beat, four blattzing saxes and a nitty-gritty ditty called Lady Madonna! Yeah...