Word: whacke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Aristocratic Whack. In his Swiss villa at Lausanne, handsome, non-hemophilic Don Juan Charles Teresa Silvere Alphonse, Prince of the Asturias, Count of Barcelona, and pretender to the throne vacated by his late father Alfonso XIII, judged the time ripe for a manifesto to the people. Proclaimed Don Juan...
Proletarian Whack. From Moscow, via London, came a venomously polite inquiry: two Spanish soldiers had been captured on the Russian front - long after Madrid announced withdrawal of its notorious Blue Division; what should the Kremlin do? Regard the two Spaniards as prisoners of war, despite their Government's announcement? Or treat them as irregulars, liable to summary execution...
...looks a decade younger than his 44 years, has been a New Yorker from his lower East Side boyhood, through the College of the City of New York, to his present upper West Side hideaway. There he keeps a super-phonograph, whose sensitive entrails are always getting out of whack, and a Mason & Hamlin, which he has been known to play for bosom friends. On paper he has no facility whatever, but by main strength has made himself a writer of exceptional pith and clarity (Music On Records, A Book of the Symphony...
...stirring up a first-class row among economists. For one thing, the Brookings estimate was $123 billion, substantially lower than the most popular $140 billion boxcar figure which businessmen roll off their tongues. But the Brookings Institution then went on, in a brochure titled Postwar National Income, to whack all other postwar estimators as, in effect, so many dizzards, noodles, lackwits and dunderheads. The distinguished list of numbskulls obviously included the Committee for Economic Development, the Department of Commerce, and Planner Ruml, as economists who either: 1) could not count straight, or 2) who had added & subtracted the wrong things...
...every security sales manager wanted a whack at the bonds. Choice rail-bond merchandise has been scarce in the war years. Further, the ore, wheat and lumber-carrying Great Northern has come a long way financially since the late '305. Then analysts seriously questioned its ability to pay a $100 million debt...