Word: slap
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...travel. Third, that machinery for examination exists in the form of House Food Committees and Visiting Committees of mothers. These people, however, are amateurs--they know nothing of slicing beef or buying coffee, they can evaluate appearance and taste, not method. Fourth, that an investigation would be a slap in the face of the Dining Halls Department. But this argument, which was the core of Heaman's case and has also been cited by Dean Bender, is demonstrably invalid. Does the fact that the University has its books audited annually mean that it suspects embezzelment? And is the central purpose...
Dartmouth scored twice more in the first eight minutes of the second period, once on a push shot in a scuffle in front of the cage, and then on a patented Riley crossover slap-shot with Joe scoring and Billy assisting. With 7:26 of the second period gone, the Indians were through scoring...
Dave Abbot made it 4 to 3 midway in the final session, but despite two penalties against Dartmouth in the final ten minutes, the Crimson was unable to slap the puck past Desmond...
...Prime Minister and leader of the reigning Liberal Party. He was tense and nervous. Directly across the aisle from him sat George Alexander Drew, the new boss of the rival Progressive Conservative Party. St. Laurent started to read the traditional greeting. It turned out to be a backhanded slap at Conservative Party policy. "Politics . . . cheap politics," cried the Tory M.P.s...
...move as a means of assimilating foreigners into the national life, and of helping to stop the drain on foreign exchange. But to Argentina's large (40,000) and tweedy British colony, and to its small, compact contingent of North American businessmen, the proposal was an unmistakable slap...