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Word: whacking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...negate the size of our voices and actions by laughing at the ridiculousness of it all--as if to say, "Look, I'm still just a girl"? It is not an everyday occurrence to watch a woman take herself and her body seriously, to see a woman scream and whack things and not then make light of it. It betrays a strength and power most of us are afraid to acknowledge, except in the most accepted of outlets, like sports or theater or dancing...

Author: By Abigail R. Branch, | Title: Defending Ourselves | 3/11/1998 | See Source »

...That's so whack," the man said. "6'5" and 160 lbs? That's sickly...I had no idea that women models were that ridiculously disproportioned...

Author: By Melissa L. Gibson, | Title: The Private Mantra | 3/5/1998 | See Source »

...could do you in even if you had done no wrong. Other officers might cruise through the area and have debris or even rocks thrown at them. When Blondie drove by with his cohort, silence fell on the bleak streets. "Cross those guys, and they'd whack you upside the head," says Cory Brown, who now lives in the house where Arthur Colbert was beaten in 1991. "We had our times, Blondie and me," says Brown. "He busted me for having a gun, and I was lucky to get off with probation." No hard feelings, says Brown. "I didn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOW COPS GO BAD | 12/15/1997 | See Source »

...mission--or merely locked the plane in its radar-tracking sights. "If he lights up a plane with radar or takes a shot, that'll open the door to attack," a senior Pentagon official told Time. "We're just waiting for him to do something stupid so we can whack him." But as long as Saddam avoids that rash move, the President's options will remain less than perfect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FACING DOWN A DESPOT | 11/24/1997 | See Source »

...hangs out with black people all the time: "She said, 'Look how loud and rude they are.'" Children of color face similar pressures. Cynthia Bou, 13, a Dominican-American friend of Thecla's, says an older cousin asked her why some of her friends are white. "White people are whack," she warned Cynthia. "You're going to change when they treat you wrong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KIDS AND RACE | 11/24/1997 | See Source »

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