Word: slap
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...military power of Russia. . . . To suppose that Britain and the U.S. with the aid of some lesser European powers could maintain permanent security in Europe through a policy which alienated Russia and induced her to disinterest herself in Continental affairs would be sheer madness." This conception was a slap at the reported desire of the Vatican and of some circles in Washington to establish a buffer of anti-Russian states in Eastern Europe...
...team of five soldiers can slap together a Pacific hut-cozy, semi-permanent quarters for 16 to 18 men-in only eight hours. Pacific Huts' founders took about that much time to slap their company together last year. Its president, an ex-Buick salesman, Frank Hobbs, was then head of the Colotyle Corp. (a wallboard manufacturer now making bathroom and shower assemblies for Henry Kaiser); its vice president, George K. Comstock, owned a Seattle neon-sign business...
...this sounded fine on paper. But shipping men saw at least two reasons to fear that it would be hard to achieve. The new ships may take two or three weeks longer to build than the average 55 days it now takes to slap together an old-style Liberty ship (though once in production shipyards may snap back to present building time). And it will take much larger and more powerful reciprocating engines to push a Liberty's speed up from the present 10 knots to 15. Besides, even 15 knots is no match for the 21-knot surface...
Roosevelt would be mistaken to look on Flynn's rebuff as a slap in the face of the Administration. The balance of power which turned the scales against this appointment was in the hands of men who have been staunch supporters of the President in his whole foreign policy...
...written by Senate and House Committees with as little regard for Treasury feelings as was humanly decent, Congress inserted a clause which authorized it to short-circuit the Secretary in seeking advice and statistics from Treasury experts. Faithful Majority Leader Alben W. Barkley pleaded with his colleagues not "to slap the Secretary of the Treasury in the face," but the clause was adopted by a Senate vote...