Word: whammed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hemisphere producers are grumbling loudly. "I've always felt [the Americans] were fair-weather friends," said an official of the Canadian Metal Mining Association. "When the pinch is on-wham! Someone starts talking tariffs." Peruvians say that any tariff hike, no matter how small, will put most of the country's lead and zinc producers out of business, cost the country 14% of its export income...
...huge bottle, holding an umbrella to keep off the rain. He was slowly submerged, then he tapped the bottle with a hammer; and glass, water and Kovacs spilled onstage. Curling his lip over his mustache in a saucy moue, he may address himself to a golf ball and wham it squarely into the Cyclops eye of the camera. After a splintering crash, viewers duck, the screen goes dark, a voice purrs: "And let that teach all of you out there to pay attention...
...suddenly the figure comes to life. The lips part, the eyes half close, the clutched guitar begins to undulate back and forth in an uncomfortably suggestive manner. And wham! The midsection of the body jolts forward to bump and grind and beat out a low-down rhythm that takes its pace from boogie and hillbilly, rock 'n' roll and something known only to Elvis and his pelvis. As the belly dance gets wilder, a peculiar sound emerges. A rusty foghorn? A voice? Or merely a noise produced, like the voice of a cricket, by the violent stridulation...
...history of this recurrent American dream is unrolled with an unerring sense for drawing every last bit of humor from the situation. There are a few sub-happenings, like Blandings' professional struggle--he has to invent a new slogan for Wham Ham, Inc. There is also his wife's old but incipient romance with their old lawyer friend Bill Cole. But most of the action plods around the single spectre of Blandings getting fleeced...
Clap goes the thunder, zing says the lightning, down come the rains, out goes the dam, wham goes an earthquake. Temples crash. A wall of water whirls the hero away. Fissures swallow tons of peasants, and the earth munches on them the way a cow chews oats. Lana, meanwhile, is hammering picturesquely on death's door as she battles a tropical fever, and as soon as she can walk she staggers, understandably enough, toward the nearest exit. She is apt to find it crowded...