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Word: whack (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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After a few stiff drinks, he kicks the turtle and punches the parrot for pure cussedness-like a bad boy just begging for a beating. When he doesn't get one, he gives the old girl a lusty whack on what follows her around. Poor Pina, delighted to have a man around the house, mistakes insult for interest. But after Adolfo gratuitously sneers at her friends ("I'm a cut above the lot of you") and falls down drunk in her backyard, Pina's patience runs out, and she tells him what a useless mess...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Bind That Ties | 8/26/1966 | See Source »

...first drive sailed into a water hazard. The sportsman then proceeded to tee up a new ball, whack it onto the green, and three-putt the par-three hole. Next he shot a seven in a par-four situation and a six on another par-four hole, winding up with a very inefficient seven-over-par. Too bad for General Francisco Franco, 73, who commands quite a few things in Spain, but not the golf courses. As he left the new links at Sotogrande near Gibraltar, Franco asserted himself. The two-hole course on his estate outside Madrid obviously wasn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Apr. 22, 1966 | 4/22/1966 | See Source »

Fidel Castro: "The ground's a little wet today, eh?" Puff, puff. "I have a new cutting technique." Whack. Zing. Chonk. "First the lower part and then the upper part." Chop. Chonk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cuba: Sugar Blues | 4/15/1966 | See Source »

...faces ten years for possessing burglary tools, but only five for using them. In North Carolina, a housebreaker who slips through a partly opened door can get ten years; a burglar who personally opens the same door another inch faces death. Even federal income tax raps seem out of whack: the maximum for falsifying a return is five years compared with one year for not filing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Criminal Justice: The Sentencing Mess | 12/31/1965 | See Source »

...clear that something is wildly, hilariously out of whack. Are the voices real? The answer is yes. Were the speakers recorded accurately? Again, yes. The catch is that Swayze's questions and Dirksen's responses were spliced together, out of context, from two separate tapes. The result is a new comedy album, Welcome to the L.B.J. Ranch, created by Gag Writer Earle Doud, that in two weeks has sold some 500,000 copies and bids fair to rival Doud's earlier spoof, The First Family (with Vaughn Meader as J.F.K...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Records: The Splice Is Right | 11/19/1965 | See Source »

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