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...comes from an ancient Polynesian hunting weapon," he said. "I guess you would just thwack the animal on the head...

Author: By Dharma E. Betancourt, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Yo-yo Aficionados Make Plans, Seek Official Recognition for Offbeat Pursuit | 10/29/1997 | See Source »

Today, The U.S.S. Theodore Roosevelt glides stealthily in the Adriatic Sea off the coast of what once was Yugoslavia. Ironically, the motto of the Western powers for most of the Bosnian conflict has been to "Speak hypocritically and thwack yourself with a small twig." Western leaders regularly repeat their mantra of how "Bosnia was a great failure of Western leadership," as if they are speaking of some other Western leaders and that with the admission of guilt all their sins are absolved...

Author: By Andrel Cerny, | Title: We Must Never Forget | 10/14/1995 | See Source »

Harding and her confederacy of dunces thought they could eliminate the Olympic figure-skating competition with one thwack of a metal baton on Nancy Kerrigan's leg. They would then skate to riches, and nobody would know better. In fact, everybody went to jail but Harding, who plea-bargained her way to probation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Best and Worst Sports of 1994 | 12/26/1994 | See Source »

...friend was not as pleased with my hypothesis. That's not the way you hit a dog, he said. You hit a dog overhand, like this. Thwack...

Author: By Alexandra Jacobs, | Title: Books Not-So-Heavy Petting | 11/18/1993 | See Source »

BINK! WHEN THE CALLAWAY GOLF CO.'S ULTRA-ENGINEERED Big Bertha driver connects with a common golf ball, the space-age sound is no auditory accident. Forget thwack or clink -- think of a high-performance computer firing up. The low- tech ball, meanwhile, has landed 20 to 30 yds. farther down the fairway than you expected. "I've played for 61 years," says 12-handicapper Thomas Dight, 76, a retired Long Island, New York, school superintendent who prowls the links all summer long in Wolfeboro, New Hampshire. "I've never seen anything like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Driving Reign | 9/6/1993 | See Source »

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