Word: whacke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thalamus, a sort of relay station, transmits nerve impulses to & from the frontal lobe. When these nerve pathways get out of whack, the doctors reasoned, emotional control becomes disturbed and insanity results. Why not operate on the thalamus direct instead of risking damage to the frontal lobe? The big difficulty was getting at the thalamus without wrecking three inches of brain...
...Sanders' physical layout. The stage itself meets the requirements of Elizabethan drama, and impressionist plays like "Our Town," where any hare platform will do. The choice of plays has often revolved on the problem of what can be done with poor old 16th century Sanders. In some cases, a whack at a play that is neither impressionist nor Elizabethan has produced ingenious efforts at staging the near impossible, but for the most part, the Sanders stage lias severely limited the selection of material...
Incipient tuberculosis will receive its annual whack from State and City health boards starting today when the Student Council initiates its drive in the dining halls to register student, faculty, and staff voluntears for X-raying next week...
...York City and its suburbs had the most wretched time of all. The people had just begun to stir feebly after a record 25.8 inch snowfall (TIME, Jan. 5) when the second storm hit. Fire-alarm boxes went out of whack. Transportation fell back to a medieval pace. Sixteen thousand houses in metropolitan New York and many thousands more in Westchester County and on Long Island were without heat. In ice-sheathed New Jersey a state of emergency was called, armories were thrown open to shelter the chilled citizenry, and children were ordered indoors because of the danger from broken...
Toronto's rough, tough Maple Leafs, known as hockey's bad men, had no corner on rowdiness. The Detroit Red Wings, no sissies themselves, met them whack for whack two weeks ago. Last week, with the two teams neck & neck (or throat to throat) for the National Hockey League lead, 13,284 Torontonians turned out to see another battle of bashed heads...