Word: slap
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the Paris papers, right and left, printed President Truman's slap at them. But, thoroughly polite and docile, not one cracked back...
...feuding factions of Spain's opposition-in-exile, enormously heartened by the Big Three's slap at Franco (TIME, Aug.13), took a long stride down the road to Madrid. In Mexico City, now the capital of the Spanish emigration, all major parties last week agreed to recognize ex-Cortes President Diego Martinez Barrio as Provisional President of the Republic of Spain...
...other Latin American capitals, officials talked of reopening the Argentine question at the Inter-American Conference in Rio de Janeiro next October. In Washington, it was rumored that Secretary of State James Francis Byrnes would withdraw Ambassador Braden from Buenos Aires as a slap at the Argentine militarists, make him Undersecretary of State. From Washington, too, came a report that the U.S. has already ordered its first economic sanction against Argentina: in the future, Argentine ships may not use the Panama Canal. Reason: their two vessels a month overtax the Canal...
Lightened by slap-stick, by shrewd characterizations in the vitriol of Sinclair Lewis, and by its background lampoon, "Over Twenty-One" is familiar war-time humor. It trips gaily and successfully along on the assumption that there's something to be laughed at anywhere, even--or especially--in a jumble of newspapers, Hollywood plays, Army manuals, bugle calls, and very confused people...
Satisfied that he was limbered up Mr. Durrance . . . broke into a major theme of astonishing virtuosity: an outboard motorboat is drifting in a rock-girt bay, with no other sounds than the slap of waves on the hull and the seething wind. Then come a series of reluctant, coughing gasps as the pilot tries to start the engine. At last the motor responds to his desperate tug, and the little boat dashes across the bay, the puttering sound of the engine reflected faithfully by the towering cliffs ahead. The boat goes faster & faster, and at last races altogether...