Word: whacking
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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...
...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...
...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...
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...
...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...