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Word: whacking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...will probably never know. The event that began with a whack! has ended with a less-than-satisfying whimper. By plea-bargaining her way out of the tangle, Harding has ensured that she will never have to answer the question that dogged her all the way to the Olympics and back: Did she have a hand in planning the assault on Kerrigan? For her part of the bargain, Harding will pay a $100,000 state fine, make a $50,000 donation to the Special Olympics and reimburse the Multnomah County prosecutor's office for $10,000 in court costs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Springtime for Tonya | 3/28/1994 | See Source »

...five-room house had belonged to the estate's gardener. That apple farmer and his family put the house on logs and rolled the house a half-mile across town and onto a foundation they had dug themselves. I discovered this history when my father first took a whack at the white plasterboard of the spare room. My father slammed the hammer's teeth into the wall, peeling away the flimsy board to reveal dark, cobwebbed wood...

Author: By Michael K. Mayo, | Title: The Room that Dad Built | 11/18/1993 | See Source »

...more examples of out-of-whack tournament seedings, Brown (5-2-0) is seeding fifth at the ECAC tournament while Cornell (6-1-0) is seeded sixth. The mystery is why Brown, which had to defeat Harvard in overtime to secure is berth, is placed higher than Cornell...

Author: By John B. Trainer, | Title: Silva Takes M. Soccer's Fourth Rookie Award | 11/10/1993 | See Source »

WHAT?! you scream. A bunch of elitist, corporate-sponsored jerks in long pants trying to whack a white ball into a little hole. And some people watch this on television and call it sport...

Author: By Darren Kilfara, | Title: The Pro Sports Lull | 10/29/1993 | See Source »

...this sneaky trick, wear protective clothing. You may get attacked from behind by a furious, foaming first-year who had been trying to print out her Expos revision when all of a sudden you hijacked her computer, to do E-MAIL, no less! She may then whack you with her bag (not that this ever happened to me, especially not last week after justice...

Author: By Ariela Migdall, | Title: In the Groovy Train | 10/28/1993 | See Source »

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