Word: whack
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tambours and booming vaccines (huge bamboo pipes that give off hollow, resonant notes when blown). Waving clubs, machetes and old colonial swords, they thrash through the ravines and cane-brakes, and if by chance they first come upon a neighboring band's Judas, so much the better-they whack it up with glee. By noon Haiti is strewn with dismembered dummies, bleeding sawdust, and rags...
...election year, showed no signs of firing any of OPS's horde of 11,796 employees, even if many of them had little left to do. Arnall's office warned that prices might go creeping up again, so everybody would have to stand by ready to whack them if they got back to the level of the suspended ceilings...
...playwright after another has taken a whack at writing a play about Joan of Arc but the play by Bernard Shaw currently being produced at the Plymouth is the pick of the basket. Perhaps its appeal lies in that it avoids being a tearjerker, the fault of several Joan plays, and instead works on the emotions in an honest...
...blame for the nation's current unreadiness went far back. Three years ago, the Joint Chiefs had asked for a $31 billion budget, and had been told to scale it down to $18 billion, which they considered a rock-bottom minimum-only to have the Budget Bureau whack it down to $14.3 billion. They had angrily fought the cuts, up to a point. Then they reluctantly conceded that civilian authority should prevail, and made speeches about how they had no desire to dislocate the economy. Many a Congressman and many a citizen had complacently said: "Well, the military always...
...John moved on to the produce department, became engrossed in testing the hanging-type scales, decided they ought to be replaced with the counter type. Said he: "The others look better and they're not so apt to go out of whack with all that bouncing around...