Word: slap
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...manifesto was also a slap at Argentina, for Morínigo and the soldier politicians around him were a smudged carbon copy of Argentina's military Government. Unidad National, Argentine underground newspaper, claimed that Vice President Juan Domingo Perón had made a secret agreement with Paraguay's militarists, looking toward a "total customs union" with Argentina. The manifesto was a hint that the Paraguayan people might have something to say about that. The move would reduce Paraguay to an Argentine dependency, tend to bolster her unpopular military government...
...Slap for Slap. Fortunately for Emily, the Japs greatly respected Major Boxer's record of wily diplomacy: "Everybody say British bad, Boxer okay, girl friend okay," they told Emily. But Emily remained her unpredictable self. She gave Jap officials English lessons in return for food, even went to dinner with them ("People [in New York] raise their eyebrows at this attitude, but nobody in occupied territory would. I wish you could have a month of Japanese-occupied Hong Kong"). Once she got tipsy, slapped the Jap Chief of Intelligence in the face. He came...
...withdrawal was a slap at the U.S. as well as at Britain, because the State Department had confidently counted on Russia to help get rid of the plan. Now the question of an all-powerful air authority was dead-for the time...
...Oregon he had his special train pulled over the Southern Pacific's backwoods Siskiyou line, on which no national candidate had traveled for 20 years. This enabled him to pan for votes in untouched gravel at Grants Pass, Medford and Roseburg. In Oregon, too, he made the voters slap their legs with a charge against the Democratic Administration-that the New Deal had spent $2.97 per rat (you can buy a chicken for $2.97) in a Louisiana rat extermination campaign. In San Francisco, Bricker and party overcrowded an elevator, were stalled in it for ten minutes, finally crawled...
...cute, keen-edged little job as a room-seeking spinster who lands in the wrong house. Buster Keaton, one of the greatest of the silent clowns, gives the world-worn bus driver an aplomb, a strangeness, a depth of sadness, which all but turn the picture from its casual, slap-happy course into something far more impressive...