Word: whack
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rolls-Royce Dart engines vibrate hardly at all, so the Viscount's designers are hoping for low maintenance costs. None of the plane's 200 instruments, for instance, had to be replaced after its tests. With normal vibration a lot of them would have gone out of whack. The engines are rugged too. Rolls-Royce engineers tossed two buckets of ice cubes into the nose of one, and the only result was a loud clatter and a puff of steam out the exhaust...
...today, says Ogilvie, "are so constantly keyed up to fight the world that is trying to tread them down that they are in a state of continual and futile preparedness." Their nervous systems, "tuned for combat in the day and rehearsing combat during sleep," get out of whack. So do their glands. The result is such "stress diseases" as ulcers, high blood pressure, overactive thyroids...
These two instances are only the most recent examples of biased "reporting." Almost the whole press coverage of the un-American Activities Committee was slanted from the first whack of Parnell Thomas' gavel. The burst of front-page copy which followed Lawrence Duggan's death and the one-sided stories of the slander thrown at Dr. Edward U. Condon by the Thomas Committee have been mere items in the "crusade...
...telescope also has another ailment. Complicated tests have proved that the edge of the mirror responds to temperature changes more quickly than the center. This makes the glass expand and contract unevenly, throwing the mirror's curvature out of whack...
...boss, Paul Hoffman, was a happy man. After arguing over the matter for weeks, the 16 Marshall Plan nations and Western Germany agreed among themselves last week on how to whack up ECA's $4,875,000,000 (see INTERNATIONAL). It was one of the few times in recent history that the European nations had agreed on anything. Hoffman dared to hope that that cooperation, born out of desperation, was a milestone on the road to economic sanity...