Word: whack
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bobbing heads with an M-16 automatic rifle. Huggins needed only a minute to regain his breath, then grabbed a rifle himself. "Come on," he said with understandable vengeance, "let me do some of that shooting. I've used up a lot of luck in one whack...
...country, and in 1960, to ensure good weather for week-long independence ceremonies, the Oba of Lagos reportedly hired witch doctors to drive away rain. Even the government counsel testified to the efficacy of juju potions, assured Justice Alexander that, properly treated, the flesh was impenetrable to a sharp whack from a machete...
Colorado's Peter Dominick, who thought it "absolute nonsense" to double funds for a program that "is so beset from the beginning to the end with problems," proposed an amendment to whack $553 million off the bill. Michigan's Pat McNamara, the bill's floor manager, argued that O.E.O. "is a new agency, in operation less than a year, designed to meet a gigantic problem−that of reducing poverty in the United States. To expect that there would not be problems in administration would be unreasonable." Dominick's amendment failed, 51 to 40. An amendment...
...Hall, whose mark is in the vicinity of .290. Their top pitcher is Renaissance Miss Steve Kadison, who last year was the fourth leading hitter in the EIBL with a .405-average. Kadison's hitting, however, has tailed off considerably this year but he still has the capacity to whack the long ball...
Nelson Rockefeller's remarriage, in Novak's opinion, was the event that threw the market mechanism most violently out of whack. It removed Rockefeller from the number one position in the race and, more important, showed just how lukewarm his support had been all along...