Word: whack
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Reporter Irwin Rosten confronted each repairman with a portable radio "in perfect operating condition" except for a simple short circuit "in plain view." Some shops recommended repairs ("practically no two alike"): "a new condenser," "a short in the transformer," "a realignment job," "the oscillator is out of whack." Range of estimates: from $9 to $15. None mentioned the short circuit. What's more, the "radio servicemen" surreptitiously wrecked the volume control, the tuning control, two tubes and the batteries, putting the set "completely out of commission...
Last week, Big Jim went out of his whimsical way to whack the big city boys in Birmingham. He didn't have to lie down to do it, either. He simply made a suburban drug clerk president of the Jefferson County Commission, which runs the county. Birmingham is the county seat...
Abruptly Vag was impelled forward by an energetic whack on the shoulder. He looked around and up at a pleased-looking bronzed lad, yelled, "Sturdy!" and suddenly his freshman year was near and vividly remembered. Sturtevant Pendrake had been the most aggressively self-conscious dilettante and social figure in Vag's prewar circle. Vag had at that time known many ivy-towerish characters, but he still recalled his start of surprise at walking into Sturdy's room and finding ivy growing on the inside walls, deep and luxuriant. Sturdy it was who started the fad of the costs of many...
...oils and 18 watercolors in last week's show, most looked hesitant and patchy, and a few were seriously out of whack. Cézanne never learned to draw as fluently as the average commercial artist, and like most perfectionists he was stammeringly conscious of his failure to paint perfectly. If he had not inherited a comfortable income from his banker father, and been blessed with a stoically believing wife and a businesslike son to manage his affairs, the "Hermit of Aix" might never have created such powerful...
...Tampa the crowd edged in closer to see Mildred ("Babe") Didrikson Zaharias whack out a golf ball. It was a sight all right, but there were risks; the Babe, among her other great talents, has a sharp tongue. Said she to the crowd: "I know I'm good, but not this good. I have to have room to hit the ball." As the gallery fell back, she took a look toward the flag, waggled once, and sent the ball flying...