Word: whacks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...unsold cars, bootlegging dealers shunt them off to used-car dealers at bargain prices (as much as 24% below list). The cars are then put on sale at near-wholesale prices, thus undercutting new-car sales. In the resulting price chaos, local new-car dealers are forced to whack their own prices drastically or offer fantastic lures to sell their goods...
...cajoled from her. When the aria came to an end with a final, tense pianissimo, the maestro dropped his hands and the string section rapped their bows on the music racks. Everybody laughed in relief and pleasure. Toscanini himself stepped off the podium and gave Soprano Nelli an affectionate whack on the rump. She turned and threw her arms around him, buried her head in his shoulder for a moment...
...will probably cost about $4,000.000. v. $1,500,000 for the propeller-driven Boeing Stratocruiser. But Boeing figures the airlines will more than make up the difference through faster schedules and easier maintenance. The four Pratt & Whitney J-5U jets have fewer moving parts to get out of whack, are hung under the wings in pods for easy repairs. Pilots will also have things easier. The 707's flight deck has only 179 switches, levers, panel instruments and warning lights, v. 404 on the Stratocruiser...
...Improved Posture? John, meanwhile, had an even more discouraging setback-he threw his back out of , whack doing a tango and, after trying to keep on for two more days, finally stopped because of the pain. Daddy threatened to fire him if he ever started up again. Last week John was gloomily attempting to clear away the debris of his terpsichorean idyl...
...every Yaleman's life, there has been one traumatic experience that other people do not have. It is Tap Day-the tense afternoon in May when members of the junior class gather to await the whack on the back that will send 90 of them to the six great Senior societies. William Howard Taft had sweated it out (he went Skull & Bones); so had his son Robert (Bones), and Robert's political adversary, Dean Acheson (Scroll & Key). Even that fictional stalwart. Dink Stover (Bones), had trembled at the thought of Tap Day: "The morning was interminable, a horror...