Word: whack
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...great pistons n a pumping system, trains of cars slid to and fro. From distant conduits they sucked in their human packing, shot the swaying masses to central arteries, discharged them through clattering turnstiles which enumerated the herd and propelled any who sought to delay with a genial postern whack." Even his criticisms are a left-handed compliment: "[The Americans] fall into mass hysterias on small provocation; they continually suppose themselves on the verge either of calamity or salvation; everything is exaggerated to a panacea or a menace, so much so that I could not tell, reading the advertising, which...
...runner-up to Vincent Richards for this title last summer. Often have tennis-lovers predicted that Kozeluh could take the measure of anyone in the game. He was steadier, a stone wall; professionals had never been given a chance to show what they could do. Amazed, they watched Tilden whack his cannonball serve across so hard that all Kozeluh could do was wave at it; they saw Tilden outsteady the stone wall with baffling dropshots, cross-court drives. Tilden ran the match out in straight sets, 6-4. 6-2, 6-4. Next evening in Baltimore they played the second...
...Washington minimized Prohibition, their party's rock of schism, joyfully saw in the election only an uprising against an outworn partisan cry of "Hoover prosperity," symptomatic of a major economic revolt against Republican diddling on the tariff and unemployment. Wets naturally could see nothing but a resounding whack delivered to the 18th Amendment...