Word: whack
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pileup resembling a rugby scrum developed near the Cornell net. A couple of Crimson players had a whack at the puck until Sasner slid the frozen disc under a maze of players to end the contest...
...sent out from Iowa that laments the "bleak and frozen landscape." Frozen it is, sometimes as deep as five feet if no snow cover comes to hold in the natural heat. But bleak? Bleak is in the eye of the beholder. Eagles congregate in winter along the Mississippi. Kids whack cans across frozen ponds and belly flop on their sleds down crystalline hills. And on some nights, with moonlight glazing the fields, come the howls of coyotes, a surviving shiver from other centuries when great adventure lay over that uncharted horizon...
...sort of sappy, happy dream that belongs in a feverish place like Miami: you are tooling along I-95 when an armored truck whizzes by. The back door swings open. Out falls a sack. Along comes another truck. Whack, it hits the sack. A blizzard of money explodes into the air. Cars screech to a halt, and people leap out, running every which way after the money...
...have permanently changed the game and for the moment improved the drama. "One of the most important balances in basketball," says Pete Newell, who coached championship teams at San Francisco and California, "is the value of the ball against the penalty of the foul. That might be out of whack now. Promiscuous fouling could be coming." The wiliest coaches, like Jerry Tarkanian of Nevada, Las Vegas, have been passing up three-on-two fast breaks for three-point shots. What do you do with guards who run away from the basket...
...Consumer Price Index, the most widely watched measure of inflation, was getting out of whack with today's American life-style. Last adjusted in 1978, the Labor Department's so-called market basket of goods and services was too heavily weighted with such items as hard liquor, red meat and tobacco, all of which the typical American now consumes less of than a decade ago. So last week when the Government released its January CPI figure, the number reflected a reapportioned mix of goods and services to measure more accurately inflation for the typical consumer...