Word: slap
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...administration of the Woodrow Wilson School, this trend must seem a slap in the face. Here they have set up a training program in public affairs, and the trainees go around saying, in effect, that it's not what it's cracked...
Although Mikita has been demoralizing enemy goalies for seven years with his deft wrist shots and whistling slap shots, he was widely regarded until this season as a "chippy"-a loudmouth who goaded opponents and officials, deliberately picked fights on the ice. The reputation was costly both to Stan and the Black Hawks: through last season, he averaged 106 minutes a year in the penalty box. Now Mikita has reformed. He has collected only twelve minutes in penalties this year, which accounts in large part for his increased scoring output and the Black Hawks' new success...
...pastoral sense to administer the sacrament only when the confirmant is old enough to understand his commitment. The words and acts of the ritual tend to support this view: when the bishop anoints the forehead with chrism, a mixture of olive oil and balm, he also administers a ceremonial slap on the cheek to remind him that he must be ready to suffer for his faith...
Then at 13:53 Skip Stanowski ended a Cornell power play with a carefully measured slap shot that exploded inside the right post...
...gets an abortion, and she has a role in the forthcoming Pinter adaptation of Nicholas Mosley's novel, Accident. But that is the limit of her movie career, because she grew tired of the endless retakes. In one scene in Alfie, Michael Caine is called upon to slap her. "I was hit and hit all day long," she recalls, "until by the end of the afternoon my face was swollen out to here...