Word: thrash
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...psychiatrist, sound like a playback from Kerouac's novel: "The patient exaggerates his mood and his feelings: he 'lets himself go' and gets himself into a highly emotional state. He is uncooperative, refuses to answer questions or obey orders . . . At other times he will thrash about wildly. His talk may be disjointed and difficult to follow...
While an aroused codger made news by bopping a detractor of the Queen (see FOREIGN NEWS) because, he said, Prince Philip was in no position to thrash the bounder himself, the prince collected a few headlines on his own. At Arundel Castle in Sussex, he captained a cricket team during a charity match, let a hot liner bounce off his chest for what the Americans would call an error, saw his players fight to a draw with the Duke of Norfolk's team. At Cowes, on the Isle of Wight, he raised eyebrows by having a drink with...
...Nehru's. Neutralist Nehru took sides instanter. "That rascal!" cried he. "Does he say I'm his friend? I barely met him. He's no friend of mine!" Somebody suggested that the family should have hired a gang of goondas (goons) to thrash the rascal. "Why didn't you?" snapped Nehru...
...applied in the social sciences. Here a defense of Hugh O'Neil, the great Earl of Tyrone, ends in an explanation of Elizabethan expansion as the result of a price squeeze on the gentlemen of England. There Totem and Taboo is tabooed, with anthropological reasons. Here some pellet-counters thrash out the merits of the rat and the hamster as laboratory animals. There the probable next moves of the Rubber Workers Union are mapped...
...once, he delivered an introductory downbeat so overwhelmingly spectacular that every man in the orchestra sat jaw-dropped in wonder, unable to make a sound). And best of all, as Reporter Paul Moor observed, "in the final rapturous climax of the Tchaikovsky Romeo and Juliet, he will scowl and thrash the orchestra up to the peroration, and then?while the men go on playing, of course?he will stand stricken for a few bars, his face turned toward the empyrean, his hands extended open to the stars, in a sort of ecstasy...