Word: slap
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Perelman was just leaving a little specialty shop in the Forties (he had been buying "a black girdle with rose panels and a bias-cup brassière" for his mother) when he ran slap into Cartoonist Al Hirschfeld-a man whose "cunning ferret eyes" share pride of place with a beard as frothy as "a zabaglione." The pair of them were eventually put under contract to make a trip round the world for Holiday magazine, and the result, excellently illustrated by Artist Hirschfeld, is one of the funniest books that Perelman has written. Subtitled "Around the World...
...used recklessly, George A. Renard, executive secretary of the National Association of Purchasing Agents, protested that it opened a "Pandora's box of controls." Mindful of the wartime jungle of red tape, one manufacturer fervently prayed that "every second lieutenant in the armed forces would not slap on priorities for everything purchased for national defense...
Federal Judge T. Alan Goldsborough, who is getting to be an old hand at dealing with John L. Lewis, tried hard last week to avoid having to slap him down again. The "national tragedy" of another coal strike, said Judge Goldsborough, would rouse the country and Congress against Lewis, perhaps against both labor & management. Said he: "The people are not going to stand for having society disintegrated by movements of this kind." He invited John L.'s lawyers and those of the Southern Coal Producers Association, with whom Lewis has stubbornly refused to negotiate, to sit down...
Facing him was the man who had prepared the Government's case-bouncy, 40-year-old Assistant Attorney General H. Graham Morison. Early in the week, Morison had persuaded Goldsborough to slap a $1,400,000 fine on Lewis' union and a $20,000 fine on Lewis himself for criminal contempt of court. Shaken by that and the threat of more to come, Lewis had wired his union chiefs: "I do hope [the miners] immediately return to work." To make sure they did, Morison had got an 80-day injunction prohibiting Lewis from ordering another walkout. Now Morison...
...been obliged to attack the Marshall Plan. He said he would ask the Communist-dominated World Federation of Trade Unions to let workers in each country decide for themselves what stand to take on U.S. aid. "When someone wants to help you," he said, "it is ridiculous to slap him in the face...