Word: whacks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...student says something that he finds insulting, does he threaten to whack them upside the head with a two-by-four to teach them the error of their ways...
Clinton went after Tsongas by airing a new spot in Colorado, Georgia and Maryland that paints the ex-Senator as a Wall Street pawn. Of the dozen Clinton ads shown this year, the whack at Tsongas is the only one in which Clinton is barely seen and is heard not at all; an anonymous announcer does the kneecapping. Most of the other Clinton commercials mirror his candidacy -- smooth, warm, persuasive, calculated with an insider's finesse to play on the public's anger at insiders...
Every week seems to bring a new spate of plans for reducing defense spending. While the Bush Administration would reportedly whack $50 billion out of a $1.89 trillion five-year military budget, some leading Democrats want to slash as much as $150 billion. Not to be outdone, the Pentagon has been tinkering with a cost-saving plan to finance the research and development of new weapons without actually buying them -- an idea that horrifies the defense industry...
...doesn't hold water. The Office of Career Services (OCS) reports that 86 students are currently studying for credit away from Harvard, compared to 126 last fall. This is only a difference of 40, not the kind of number you'd expect to throw an entire system out of whack...
...hurt that gate was in the title. Watergate. Heaven's Gate. Billy Bathgate. As the production of E.L. Doctorow's best seller went over budget and reportedly out of whack, bathgate is what Hollywood figured the Disney studio would take -- in red ink -- when the film finally opened. Its summer premiere was postponed; last month a new ending was shot (then discarded); stories surfaced of clashes between director Robert Benton and his star, Dustin Hoffman. Oh, and Bruce Willis was in it, so it must...