Local resort manager Greg Shean said the rescuer whacked the crocodile with a tree branch until it let go and disappeared into the water.
As the storm whacked the city in August 2005, a small group of journalists holed up in a hot storage room deep inside the newspaper's building on Howard Avenue in the shadow of the Superdome.
Other members of the team whacked at the poppies with shovel handles.
The storm whacked refineries across the Gulf Coast, shutting nine of them and slowing at least three others.
For example, they would say that the collapse in the bank's share price is largely due to the eurozone crisis, which has whacked the shares of all banks.
Sweden's Sandvik (6.6, SDVKY) fell 70% in the bear market as the recession whacked sales of its metal-cutting, mining and construction tools as well as specialty alloys based on titanium and zirconium, used in thousands of applications like boiler tubes and flanges.
To arrive at their 2004 revenue estimate, the companies' well-paid advisers seem to have examined historical growth rates at both companies, interpolated them into the future and whacked 4.5% off the total to reflect the inevitable loss of business that occurs as two companies trim sales forces and eliminate product lines.
The Real Madrid defender whacked his shot off the raised arm of Whittaker and Villa hit the resultant penalty past McGregor to give the visitors the lead.
Arbeter says another indicator showing high levels of fear, which came out before the market got whacked on Thursday and Friday (Oct. 18 and 19, respectively), came from the American Association of Individual Investor survey: Bullish sentiment dropped to 28.7% while bearishness jumped 44.6%.
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Investment bank Goldman Sachs, which was close to the bottom in terms of performance during the period, has seen its shares get whacked because the Securities and Exchange Commission on April 16 charged Goldman and one of its vice presidents with fraud.
The stock market got whacked last Friday, primarily due to fears of the impact of financial regulatory reform on bank profits.
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So he grabbed a sword he kept behind his bedroom door and--still wrapped in his plaid bathrobe--whacked the guy.
The recession has whacked at sponsorships, attendance and television ratings.
While he deliberately increased the numbers of police and teachers, he whacked away at the employment rolls everywhere else.
Perhaps due to the trauma of seeing the hapless parent get whacked, some kids expressed fear, claimed principal Alicia Fernandez, who did the only reasonable thing by ordering a complete ban on the thing that caused some kids to express fear.
The corporate tax rate would be whacked from 35% to 25%, and the capital gains levy would be reduced by a third to 10%.
Some of those watching CNN here in the newsroom at Forbes were surprised that Weiner allowed himself to be whacked with questions from the journalists in attendance for a good 30 minutes.
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John McCain got whacked by the press for saying the economy was strong on Monday and then, after stocks took a dump on Wednesday, saying that he meant American workers were strong.
In 2007, along a familiar stretch of the British Virgin Islands from Anguilla to Anegada, Discovery's keel whacked a reef in the middle of the night.
Sometimes you need to take one for the team, you need to get 'whacked' and you can't retaliate because the consequences of that retaliation can be pretty severe as well.
In league with the rocket is the 17-foot hideous-yet-endearing troll under the Aurora Bridge, as is the raucous Summer Solstice Parade in all its stilted, puppet bearing, naked cyclist glory that drums to the beat of its own whacked-out marching band.
The March 2011 earthquake and tsunami in eastern Japan and massive flooding in Thailand whacked Japanese car production, adding to the woes created by the yen's rise in the past few years.
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He played patiently from the baseline, mixing the pace of his shots to win a succession of long rallies, and he repeatedly whacked winners when Djokovic tried to force the issue by coming forward.
The stock market in Brazil got whacked in 2008-09 like everywhere else.
Smaller firms that had followed the leveraged buy-out path got whacked, too.
Anthony is battling a sore left shoulder, an injury originally sustained when he was whacked in a victory over the Pacers on April 14.
Biogen Idec shares were whacked in late February when the company and partner Elan pulled their multiple sclerosis drug Tysabri from the market after the two companies confirmed that a patient who had been taking Tysabri with Avonex, another drug, for two years had died.
New stories and a novel about a whacked-out imaginary town during the Dust Bowl drought.
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