Word: slap
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pauley. The President said to Ickes: well, tell the truth but be kind to Pauley. But when Ickes got through charging Ed Pauley with an attempt at political bribery, Mr. Truman had only two choices: to withdraw Pauley's nomination as Under Secretary of the Navy, or slap Ickes down. Last week Harry Truman slapped Ickes down, by saying that the Curmudgeon could very well have been mistaken...
...contrast coordination and cohesion on both attack and defense marked the play of the skilled Hanoverians. Precise passing and clever feints drew the home team goalies out of the cage time and time again, long enough for the Indians to slap the puck home...
Spanking is one way of forcing a baby to breathe and live. Last week Baby UNO got a sharp whack across its little red fundament. The slap was a demand that it investigate the "interference of the Soviet Union, through the medium of their officials and armed forces, in the internal affairs of Iran...
Copello was supported by the many pro-Franco Spanish priests who have emigrated to Argentina since the Spanish Civil War. But there were dissidents, even within the church. One was famed Bishop Miguel de Andrea, who did not sign the pastoral letter. Instead, he took a slap at Peron demagoguery. To a group of graduating nurses, the Bishop gave a solemn warning: "It is a tragic error to sell liberty for a few social and economic advantages...
Chicago likes nothing better than to take a slap at New York. This week, with the help of American Overseas Airlines, Inc., it slapped hard. A Douglas Skymaster (the "Chicago") took off on the first direct Chicago-to-London flight, thus bypassing New York. Up to now New York's LaGuardia Field has been the origin of virtually all commercial transatlantic flights...