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Word: whacking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ineligible for the trophy, freshmen will nevertheless be able to take an occasional whack at their more erudite brethren from across Massachusetts Avenue, Freshmen squads will also compete against each other in another aspect of the intramural program...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Intramurals | 9/23/1946 | See Source »

Within earshot of workmen's tools, the master of the White House spent a week heavy with routine work, light of newsmaking action. He was clearly pessimistic over getting the kind of OPA bill he wants out of the Senate-House stalemate. He took a whack at Congress by predicting that prices would go higher without a price control...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Progress & Pessimism | 7/29/1946 | See Source »

Inside the hotel, a businessman audience applauded Martin's whack at Commerce Secretary Henry Wallace's philosophies. Said the tall, 64-year-old Governor: "When a politician promises he can make a law that will create 60,000,000 jobs, he is guilty of a cruel and heartless falsehood. . . . You cannot pass a law that will bring about production. . . . Only enterprise can create employment. . . . Free enterprise is the property of no political party...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Key Man, Keystone State | 3/11/1946 | See Source »

Spanking is one way of forcing a baby to breathe and live. Last week Baby UNO got a sharp whack across its little red fundament. The slap was a demand that it investigate the "interference of the Soviet Union, through the medium of their officials and armed forces, in the internal affairs of Iran...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Obstetrical Spank | 1/28/1946 | See Source »

...give each party a fair whack at radio time, BBC (in agreement with Parliament politicos) had allotted ten airings of 30 minutes each to Conservatives and Laborites, four airings to Liberals. By U.S. standards this added up to no radio campaign at all, but to those who like their politics straight, it made good sense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: BBC v. Ballyhoo | 7/9/1945 | See Source »

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