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Word: spank (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...church was opened at dawn, then crept out with the ornaments wrapped in a parcel under his arm. Said Sanchez last week: "I wanted to build at home an image of the Virgin and Child, decorate them with the jewels, then adore them when they behaved well, and spank them when they behaved badly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hemisphere: Hate & Vengeance | 8/1/1949 | See Source »

...misunderstanding, as demonstrated in the rest of paragraph eight, lies in his statement that "The FBI does not sanction and is unaware of 'scare' tactics, as alleged." This was, in fact, one of the primary lessons for writing the story. The CRIMSON had hoped that Mr. Hoover would severly spank his errant agents, not rash to their defense. Williams S. Fairfield, (For the Editors...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Mail | 6/21/1949 | See Source »

...spank as a routine punishment, but don't hesitate to use a "gentle slap" if the child gets hysterical and needs it "to refocus his own attention...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Too Modern Parent | 5/9/1949 | See Source »

...over there was Mrs. Julian Huxley, wife of UNESCO's director-general, in conversation with Jerzy Borejsza, an organizer of the congress. Intellectual Borejsza was as steamed up as Painter Picasso. Said he to Mrs. Huxley: "If my wife behaved at UNESCO as you have here, I would spank her bottom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IDEOLOGIES: The Delights of Intellectuality | 9/6/1948 | See Source »

Tear-Jerker. Ophelia is not an easy role, nor is it any too clearly written. Most actresses who try it (besides being old enough to spank Polonius) are likely to play the sane scenes like mad scenes and the mad scenes like a little-theater production of Ring Lardner's Clemo Uti, or the Water Lilies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Olivier's Hamlet | 6/28/1948 | See Source »

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