Word: slap
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This wrist-slap satisfied no one but the Army's brasshats, who were only too glad to see the whole unsavory mess over & done with. The prosecution privately argued that the sentence was ludicrously mild. The defense insisted that the court had actually found Defendant Kilian guilty of neglect of duty, a charge not filed against him. Said one sarcastic G.I. spectator: "We're going to take up a collection to pay the poor guy's fine...
...nomination got hot & heavy. Until last week, the race was fairly quiet, the most noise came from supporters of Major General William ("Wild Bill") Donovan, World War I soldier, lawyer and wartime head of the Office of Strategic Services (TIME, Aug. 16). Then, suddenly, Bill Donovan got a hard slap from the state A.F.L., which dragged up an old case from the time when Donovan was U.S. District Attorney and used it to denounce Donovan as antilabor. What Donovan had done-in 1922-was to prosecute Buffalo labor leaders who had dynamited a passenger train. At the A.F.L...
...railroads have taken many a slap from the airlines, and turned the other cheek. Last week at least one road had heard enough of the airline slogan "It's Cheaper...
...boys in the back room were thinking ahead. The Fifth District, taking in Kansas City's "silk stocking" South Side, has never been a Democratic stronghold. The Boss's slap at Slaughter was irrevocable; with the Democrats split into factions, the Republican candidate might easily win in November...
...Freireich's discovery was anticipated by bored Broadwayites, who have made a pastime of "bolts and jolts"-mixtures of barbiturates and benzedrine which knock them for a loop, then slap them...