Word: slap
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...also took a slap at Cliffies who agitated this Spring for the privilege of living in off-campus apartments. "Judging by a minority on this campus it almost seems as if some want to feel aggrieved and, lacking any serious grievance in our youth-centered society, fling themselves angrily upon the trivial," she said...
...only for his blatant partisanship on Viet Nam, but also for his aphronic action in pulling the entire U.N. peace-keeping force out of the Sinai desert, particularly since Nasser originally asked him to remove it from only half of the 120-mile truce line. In a rare public slap at Thant, Johnson said he was "dismayed at the hurried withdrawal...
...Valery also gets a much higher per-acre yield. Even the Valery's biggest flaw has become a virtue: thin-skinned and fragile, it must be shipped in boxes instead of in on-the-stem bunches, and the necessary hand packing, while costlier, has made it easy to slap the company's Chiquita brand name on each banana...
...When he escorts her to her Roman town house, she climbs up the stairs-and then climbs down again as soon as he is gone. After descending still farther, she goes into the janitor's basement apartment, where her father greets her with a curse and a vicious slap across the face. When the boy telephones to wish her good night, she masks her sobs as laughter...
What the President's decision means is that the U.S. has accepted the South Vietnamese Army as the most stable and important institution in the country. Taking the responsibility for the pacification program away from American civilians is not a slap at civilian bungling and inability to do the job, but merely a reflection of the decision to keep the Vietnamese military firmly in the saddle...