Word: whack
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...last, and just most annoying, of all, he will walk into my tiny cubicle, not paying attention to what I am doing-oftentimes when I am on the phone, mid-sentence with a customer-and whack me on the arm to get my attention...
...Japan kids dance in them, figure-skating style. In Canada they glide in them to whack a street-hockey puck. And from London to St. Petersburg, preteens use them as alternative transportation. They're Heelys, and the brand is on the move. But how does a company with $40 million in annual revenues and a slender marketing budget expand to more than 60 countries in less than five years without getting lost? HSL Inc., launched in late 2000 with one product, posted U.S. sales of more than $36 million last year--an increase of 250%--and about $2.4 million...
...smoke machines fizzle out and the 40-ton moving stage whirs to a halt. "Joe, are you aware you didn?t die on arrow two?" choreographer Peter Darling asks one of the Orc actors, who today are dressed in t-shirts and track pants. ?Your crutches have to whack...
...Live view is very useful for all sorts of out-of-the-ordinary shooting. When I was testing it using an Olympus macro lens, I could manually focus the camera without craning my neck out of whack. In a crowd of people, I adjusted the articulating LCD to point downward, then held the camera aloft to take overhead shots...
...situation in Iraq is too grim to let this metaphor linger. Jon Macks, a former political consultant who is now a writer for NBC's Tonight Show with Jay Leno told TIME by e-mail: "Yeah it?s a 9 out of 10, this is a Tonya Harding type whack on the knee story. I don't know yet what we'll be doing but it's like a drunk airline pilot-story where the plane lands safely-people in danger at end, no one killed...