Word: whacking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Pitching? On the 18th, Jack's second shot left him 90 yds. short of the green, under a tall pine. He had to hit the ball low enough to miss the tree, hard enough to reach the green, high enough to clear a trap-and then stop. Whack-8 ft. from the pin. Putting? On the 12th hole, Nicklaus ran in a 25-footer, on the 16th a 40-footer, on the 17th a 15-footer. In one spectacular burst, starting at the 12th, Jack birdied five out of six holes, for a back-nine score...
...that could reach $400 million in the next fiscal year, and an expensive complex of colleges and universities that consumes about $400 million a year and yet does not charge students a single penny of tuition.* Putting two and two together, Reagan last week proposed to take a healthy whack at the funds doled out to higher education and to break a century-old tradition by charging students at the nine-campus university a tuition of $400 per year...
Blodget's tally gave the Crimson a 1-0 lead at 11:26 of the opening quarter. Jim Saltonstall headed a ball in the penalty area, then a Green fullback took a whack with his noggin, before Blodget headed it into the upper right corner of the nets...
...style circle, while families clustered around huge pots of palm-oil chop-a bubbling mass of rice, meat, fish and coconut squeezings. The fatalistic mottoes on the mammy wagons seemed symbolically apt. "God knows best," read one; "I shall return," promised another. But the most appropriate said: "Man must whack...
Composition was neat and attractive, marred only by muddied pictures that reflected some kinks in the engraving process. Here and there, the makeup seemed out of whack. A write-up of city firemen's beefs found room in the women's pages; on the first page of the second section, four humorous columns surrounded a somber piece about women convicts. Such gaffes only reflected a first-week confusion. "Those stories were in type," explained Conniff. "We simply had to put them somewhere...