Word: whacking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Maritime Commission's Emory Scott Land was still speaking when the S.S. Patrick Henry started down the ways in Baltimore. Surprised Mrs. Henry Agard Wallace just managed to whack the prow with a bottle before the ship was out of reach. One explanation offered: Maryland's rambling Senator George Radcliffe had talked so long he threw the schedule out of whack...
...Long Island's Mitchel Field one last week, Lieut. Roy W. Scott of the Air Forces saw sudden trouble on the instrument board dials of his swift Bell Aircobra. With his Allison engine revving at critically high speed (ground witnesses his suspected his propeller control had gone of whack), he headed for home, was too late by a tragic few seconds...
...come. Up leaped tortured Congressman Whelchel, grabbed a club-a length of 2-by-4 that was standing in a corner-and rushed downstairs. In Mr. Ward's office he laid about him with a whack and a will, smashed a machine on its head, walloped a $600 feeder. The 2-by-4 bounced out of his hands. He recovered it, took a few more swings, departed, breathing deeply, feeling better...
...brainchild of a big, burly studio pianist named Frank Mullen, who was at the time all choked up with nostalgia for the fields of South Dakota where he spent his boyhood. Mullen's system was to read all the farm bulletins he could lay hands on, then whack out a few tunes to fill in. Immediately popular in the Pittsburgh area, the Hour was adapted to NBC specifications in 1926. Since 1928, when the Hour went on a national hookup, it has helped increase the number of rural homes with radio sets from 20% to 70%, while Mullen...
...Lewis Jr. graduated from not-so-laborite Princeton. The labor leader brought his cigar along and watched. << George Weyerhaeuser, famed kidnap victim of 1935, now 15, graduated from a Tacoma, Wash, junior high school. << Joseph P. Kennedy's second-youngest daughter, Patricia, 17, was chosen to bottle-whack the S.S. President Polk, last of the American President Lines' new series of combination freight-and-passenger vessels...