Word: whack
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...strike fund, collected from a percentage of gate receipts, should ease the sting. Within hours of the settlement, team managers and officials were manning telephones, waking up players and telling them to report for workouts right away. By Saturday afternoon, ballparks across the country were alive with the blessed whack of hardwood hitting horsehide. The first ball of the second summer of 1981 will be thrown out this Sunday at the All-Star Game in Cleveland. The next day, regular play resumes. The owners will decide this week whether to split the season in two and hold an extra round...
...something they don't want to see." Adds Bill Edwards, vice president of the 530-store B. Dalton Booksellers chain, where romances account for 30% of mass-market paperback sales: "The women know what days their new lines arrive here. They buy four or six novels at a whack, every month." The market is so febrile that Avon has published the first homosexual romance, Gaywick; Dell has done a black contemporary, and Jove plans a "Second Chance at Love" series, for divorcees starting over...
...distinctive whack-whacking of a helicopter's rotors broke the still air above the sleepy little town of La Union in eastern El Salvador last week. When it landed, out stepped five U.S. Navy men in civilian dress-the latest contingent of "trainers" sent to El Salvador by Washington. The next day, four men in a gray Toyota pickup truck swerved past the U.S. embassy in San Salvador and raked the bunker-like building with gunfire. No one was injured, no shots were fired back, and the truck quickly sped off. Meanwhile, in cities across the U.S., opponents...
...private sector, Rockefeller related. They were often hesitant about intruding, deferential to the citizenry. But in our time, Rockefeller said, many departments, agencies and bureaucracies seemed to view the private sector as an enemy, a foe to be suspected, shadowed and finally subdued. It was all out of whack, said Rocky, and America faced no more important task than to straighten...
...this: I just Can't Stop It is a landmark album. A good place to start is with their version of the old Smokey Robinson hit, "Tears of a Clown." Just after the grand introductory riff, the Beat pitches a rhythm that is speedy, tense, seemingly out of whack. Is this Motown or is it ska? Is the bass guitar chasing the sax or is it the other way around? With truckloads of scratchy guitar work, snaky bass runs and exotic sax passages, the Beat create a sound that is soulful, dangerous, irresistible and distinctly urban. One can practically hear...