Word: whack
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...introduced just three years ago. Predictably, the New Guineans lost every game. Just as predictably, the U.S. was the favorite. After all, Americans invented the sport in 1887, and today something like 3,500,000 men, along with 500,000 women, step up to the plate each year to whack the old grapefruit around...
...lion's head so big?" (Answers: "Because the mountain won't go over the rabbit." "So he can reach the ground to eat the grass." "So he can't stick it between the bars of his cage.") For each wrong reply, the guide gets to whack the hunter on the rump with a willow branch. Smart Westerners can always retaliate with a few Red riddles of their own. One that is currently bouncing around the satellite circuit asks: "What did Aleksei Adzhubei learn when his father-in-law lost his job?" Answer: "That he married for love...
...come by because a high proportion of bay debris washes up there. The artists are amateurs, art students or real pros. Singly or in expeditions, they come clad in jeans and bikinis and armed with tools, nails and beer, to squish out across the oozing, odorous, umber mud and whack away at the driftwood. They use only what they find, in deference to the DUMP NO RUBBISH sign and its $1,000 fine...
Essayist Kronenberger is the coolest of U.S. society's critics; where others whack away with club and cutlass, Kronenberger sits back and throws darts, quietly but accurately. Among targets: "taste makers and pace setters" who, he believes, have failed to lead U.S. culture to greatness; the system that has seduced so many good writers and artists into working for corporations and their ad agencies, thus creating "a sort of debased intellectual class who, by way of their knowledge and skill, have become rather the writing hands of business, than outright businessmen"; and the great stress placed on the chap...
...speeds a bird's soft body becomes a hard projectile that can easily whack a hole in the edge of a wing; jet engines suck up birds like giant vacuum cleaners and suffer serious internal damage. One Dutch military pilot was almost killed when his jet inhaled five gulls on take-off and crashed into a barrier. Another crashed after vacuuming a flock of partridges. In 1959, 25% of Dutch military aircraft was out of action because of bird trouble...