Word: whack
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stunt books are written by clergymen, dietitians, gardeners, gourmets, radio comedians, diplomats, psychoanalysts, and almost anyone but writers. The amateurs, of course, are provided with outlines, editors and, in many cases, ghosts (a ghost may earn from $1,000 to $5,000 a book, in addition to a whack of the royalties, and a particularly expert shade may even materialize in his own right on the title page). Many writers, submitting to the trend, have become what might be called visible ghosts-they spend increasingly more time writing fiction and non-fiction to publishers' orders and specifications...
...first five minutes Actor Guin ness has a splendid whack at Chesterton's old dear: egg on the cassock, shy peer over specks askew, sedentary hobble, sly little grin. But in the long run, it becomes painfully clear that while Comedian Guinness can do no wrong as a sanctimonious rogue (The Lavender Hill Mob, The Captain's Paradise), it is just about impossible to do right by a roguish saint...
...York's Belmont Park, Belair Stud's big bay colt, Nashua, got a skillful hand ride from Jockey Eddie Arcaro, needed just one whack of the whip to hold off a determined last-furlong drive by Mrs. R. A. Firestone's Summer Tan and win the 65th running of the season's juvenile classic, the Futurity...
...much of a fielder, and I got a pretty lousy arm, but I sure love to whack at that ball. -James Lamar Rhodes
...Whack. The old economic saw is out of whack in 1954 for several reasons. The first is that steel, while still vital, has lost some of its relative importance on the U.S. industrial scene. In the past few years, vast new industries have grown up to lessen steel's weight. Such war babies as plastics and light metals are booming in peacetime-and cutting into steel's old markets: in July aluminum production rose to 252 million Ibs., a new record. Electronics is now a $5 billion annual business; TV sales hit an alltime high...