Word: thwack
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Krassner has a point. John Wayne has become one of the pop-artifacts of contemporary life. He carries with him the unmistakable aura of camp and comic strip, as if his conversation came in balloons. As if when he slugged the opposition there would issue forth a thunderous THWACK! and SOCKO! In person, the seamed, leathery face seems an extension of his saddle. A handshake lets the visitor know how a baseball feels when it is swallowed by Frank Howard's glove. True, the unwigged forehead goes clear back to his crown, but the size-18 neck defies collars...
Chop, chop. Thwack. Zing. Chonk...
...even Castro's constant companion Celia Sanchez. But it was Castro who set the pace. "Look how I do it," he instructed his interviewer. "I begin cutting from there to here, always protecting myself from the sun. My system is more rhythmic and more systematic." Chop. Thwack. Zing. Chonk...
...asked the students to sit down while we waited. I wanted to show the police that we were organized and mature, that this was not a wild demonstration." With the rustle of dresses and the thwack of books hitting asphalt, they...
...proved deft and effective in managing the balance-of-payments crisis that nearly shipwrecked the pound. Tough as any Tory, he slapped higher taxes and fees on those workingman staples toddy, tobacco and the telly, and the rank and file scarcely noticed, so busy were they applauding his simultaneous thwack on the expense-account set. Abroad, Wilson has managed to get on agreeably with the leaders of France and West Germany-no easy feat, particularly in Paris. Despite anguished cries from the pacifist left of his own party, Wilson has supported the U.S. in Viet Nam and made plain...