Word: slap
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...driven the country into closer economic relations with Japan, Germany and South American countries. Mexico still mortally fears gringo imperialism, whose representatives are again taking advantage of internal conditions to exploit the tour ist trade and mineral industries on the strength of the falling peso. And the Government will slap gringo wrists when it can get away with it. Last fortnight it ordered nationalized thousands of acres of U. S.-owned chicle lands...
...rude shock is Sir Stilton Byles. In stead of expensive sympathy, Lady Fanny gets from him one stinging slap after an other, including the flat statement that her "love-days" are over. As for the spectre of Mr. Skeffington, "Lay him," says Sir Stilton. "If he haunts you, he must be laid. . . . Make friends with Job. See him often. Ask him to dinner. Lay him, in fact...
...Piazza Venezia balcony that day he made no martial speech, but said only: "You wanted peace. I have brought you peace," then turned gloomily and went indoors. Next came the German-Russian Pact, which he was not told about until the last minute and which at one slap put down any extravagant hopes Il Duce may have reposed in his partnership with Adolf Hitler. Worst of all was what happened last autumn...
...Conservative Speaker of Norway's Storting, Carl J. Hambro, hurried to Stockholm to discuss the pact. But facts were cruel and disruptive: Finland now lies in Russia's sphere, Sweden is geographically Germany's pawn, Norway's bare face is Britain's to slap. A mutual defense pact might therefore anger all three of the major powers. But since combined German-Russian wrath is much the greatest Scandinavian fear, the alliance would probably have to favor those two nations. Germans, taking this as a matter of course, tolerated talk of the pact...
Died. Colonel Rookes Evelyn Bell Crompton, 94, father of the British electrical industry, who installed electricity in Buckingham Palace and Windsor Castle, famed as "the man who was slapped by Queen Victoria"; in London. His version of the royal slap: "The Queen never slapped me at all. She only punched me on the shoulder to emphasize the fact that she disagreed with everything I was doing about the electric lighting at the time. But the very next day she agreed to everything. She was a wonderful woman...