Word: slap
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...smothered the scoring rushes of Chicago's super stars Stan Mikita and Bobby Hull. Filling in for Johnny Bower with the series tied at two games apiece, Terry Sawchuk loomed like a bull walrus in the nets. At one point, Chicago's Hull rifled a 15-ft. slap shot with such force that Sawchuk toppled to the ice. Out rushed the Toronto trainer to see if Terry was all right. "I stopped it, didn't I?" growled Sawchuk, and scrambled to his feet to make a fantastic 37 saves as Toronto skated off with...
...have left the port of Manhattan. Except for the sterns of a couple of steamers, the sets are routine Broadway. Manos Hadjidakis' diluted bouzouki score is slumberously unvaried, and no number equals the appeal of the repeated Never on Sunday. The dancers spin like zany revolving doors and slap themselves like victims in a mosquito plague, and there is never the faintest hint of those teasingly slow, sinuous Greek male dances that seem to be sculptured...
...Harvard Republican Club took a gentle slap last night at the Harvard men who have publicly announced that they will not do military service while the U.S. is fighting in Vietnam...
...crime rate, the seeming ineradicability of poverty, the restlessness of the younger generation, the increasing use of a whole pharmacopoeia of drugs, from pot to peyote. A Gallup sampling showed that 58% of Americans consider income taxes too high-and the figure will surely swell if Johnson decides to slap a 6% surcharge on income tax rates. If he does not, the Administration may well end the current fiscal year with a deficit of $13 billion, breaking Ike's peacetime record of $12.4 billion in 1959. And some Republicans claim that it could go as high as $25 billion...
...trustees transformed their slap at the Selective Service into a broad change in educational policy. The trustees' statement, which avoided mention of the Selective Service, explained vaguely that they had tried to prevent an "intrusion by the university...into the political arena" or, at least, something that would be "regarded" as an intrusion. Their move, however, accomplished what the Faculty wanted: draft boards no longer can obtain class ranks from Columbia students...