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Word: whack (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Spain. Bunuel is an anarchist, but he is also the most famous Spanish moviemaker, so Franco invited him to come home after 25 years in exile and to shoot a picture with government funds. Bunuel accepted the offer, shot Viridiana. But before Franco's censors could take a whack at it, he smuggled the film out of the country. Shown at the Cannes Film Festival, it won the Grand Prize...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Orare Est La bora re? | 3/30/1962 | See Source »

...tiny microphone and transmitter hidden under her blouse, Jackie commented on everything from the curator's basement headquarters to the Lincoln Bedroom upstairs. So skilled was her performance that only one retake was ordered-and that simply because one of the television cameras had gone out of whack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: Jackie, Igor & Pierre | 1/26/1962 | See Source »

...Columbia). 'Tis a dark and stormy night. Shouts and shots are heard. Four Yanks jump the wall of a Confederate stockade, grab a Rebel hostage and pile into the basket of an observation balloon. Whack! They cut loose. The balloon soars. "We made it! We made it!" The storm screams derision. Four days and 7,000 miles later, it hurls the fugitives into the sea and onto the beach of an island somewhere in the South Pacific...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Mysterious Island | 1/12/1962 | See Source »

...Irishmen, forget the past And think of the day that is coming fast, When we shall all be civilized, Neat and clean, and well-advised, Oh, won't Mother England be surprised, Whack fol the diddle lol the dido...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Pop Records | 12/22/1961 | See Source »

...Humphrey's disc set-up deserves a gold medal for unconventionality. To begin with, his turntable is mounted on a 3/4" thick, solid mahogany motor-board, which is in turn affixed to a 1" thick slab of marble! The exact opposite of shock mounting, this insures that a chance whack by anything short of a sledge hammer will leave his needle firmly and serenely in the groove. "Firmly" isn't the right word here, though, since Bruce uses the new Audio Dynamics ADC-1 cartridge and tracks it (in his home-made professional arm) at about 3/4 of a gram...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Symphony at Home | 11/29/1961 | See Source »

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