Word: whack
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Judging by recent speeches made by the President and the Secretary of State, neither is listening very closely to the other. Dulles sat right behind his chief at Eisenhower's address to the Colombo Plan nations in Seattle November 10, but maybe the public address system was out of whack...
...kitten at a board meeting. The 160 girl inhabitants occupy facing wings across the courtyard, with picture windows looking on each other's picture windows. Yellow curtains, which let in too much sun, are compulsory. The girls keep opening their windows, which throws the air conditioning out of whack, so that everybody is too hot or too cold. Walled and barred at street level, the Smith dormitory looks a good deal less hospitable from the outside. No student living there will ever have an experience like that of one Smith alumna who lived in an old-fashioned dorm. Clambering...
...catch my kids reading any of the condensed classics, I'll whack them with a rolled-up Readers Digest...
...sexes in frantic little contests of mental and physical dexterity (reading garbled messages, changing light bulbs); Wingo (Tues. 8:30 p.m.) hustled over low-plateau quiz questions (name the first big battle of the Civil War) to select a contestant for the show's big moment-a whack at spelling Wingo by drawing blindly from an assortment of the word's letters. Probability of hitting Wingo and winning...
...royal yacht with salty -though not too salty-anecdotes. Elizabeth was entranced, but if Philip remembered anything special about the visit, it concerned the following morning when, back on duty and too' sleepy to hop to at first call, he hit the deck with a resounding whack as a touchy petty officer slashed the cords on his hammock...