Word: whacking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...legs pared), the late Queen Marie of Rumania, Lady Diana Manners, Mary Pickford and a politician listed as "Mr. X."* Most of these people had never heard of Schireson. But his bona fide patients claim that Schireson's surgical methods are terrifying. He even used hammers to whack noses into shape...
...great team was in the making. One of their first and most obvious triple plays was the establishment of Durante's nose as a stage prop. Clayton, who always stood to his left, and Jackson, who strutted on the right, would grab at the nose or whack at it with their hats, as if it were something untamed and menacing. An early dialogue about the phenomenon...
...hell with the Treasury's $10.5 billion demand, said the hard-worked committee, our raise is enough. To help the committee along, Pennsylvania's Representative J. Buell Snyder reported that the Army & Navy are ready to cut current expenditures by a whopping $18 billion. That enormous whack took a great deal of sting out of many a patriot's desire to pay lots more taxes this year...
...Knoxville citizens generally were found to take little interest in radio; many said their sets were out of whack. Only 4% had ever heard a BBC broadcast...
...battlers to his White House office -not to fire them but to urge them to try to patch up their quarrel. Congressional committees carefully shied away from an investigation. No Congressman wanted to embarrass Jesse Jones further, and there seemed little honest chance on this occasion to take a whack at Henry Wallace...