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Word: slap (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harvard rebuilt the margin in two quick motions following a Tiger penalty at 15:35 of the middle frame. Jack Garrity directed the faceoff back to Bob Fredo and Fredo's slap shot whistled by Flanders' left elbow into the cage...

Author: By Robert P. Marshall jr., | Title: Hockey Team Blasts Princeton; Newton Tends Net in 4-1 Victory | 3/3/1966 | See Source »

Steve Bettencourt took advantage of confusion in the defense to put Brown back on top at 12:19, and 20 seconds later Tom Coakley's slap shot deflected into the goal off a Harvard skate...

Author: By Robert P. Marshall, | Title: Brown Scores 4 2nd-Period Goals To Top Crimson Hockey Team, 4-1 | 2/24/1966 | See Source »

...Delicate Matter. Ky very quickly began to learn the limits of power in Saigonese politics. Though hardly known for quiet nights at home himself, he tried to slap a curfew on Saigon's teeming bars and brothels, only to back down-mainly because in a tense war capital, revelry is almost an essential. But he also produced some welcome surprises. Acknowledging the obvious, he declared war on North Viet Nam. Then, with the nation legally at war, he doubled army pay (from $33 to $66 a month for a private), cut in half top civilian government salaries, including...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Viet Nam: Pilot with a Mission | 2/18/1966 | See Source »

...Chicago Black Hawks' Bobby Hull has been called the "perfect muscular mesomorph." He is the National Hockey League's Most Valuable Player, its fastest skater (upward of 23 m.p.h.) and hardest shooter (his lefthanded slap shot rockets toward the net at 118 m.p.h.). Goalies complain that getting in the way of a Bobby Hull shot is "like being slugged with a sledge hammer," and practically everybody agrees with Montreal's Claude Provost that Hull is "the strongest guy in hockey." He even looks mean when he smiles, because he is missing his three front teeth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ice Hockey: Positive Protection | 1/21/1966 | See Source »

Defenseman Captain Charlie Stuart broke up Fitzsimmons' shutout bid after 15 minutes of the second period, but the Indians gave that goal back three minutes later. Gordie Price's slap shot from the point skimmed the ice and was deflected past Cruickshank off a Green defenseman's skate, with an assist going to Eric Rosenberger...

Author: By Robert P. Marshall jr., | Title: High-Scoring Six Drubs Indians; Parrot's Two Goals Spark 8-3 Rout | 1/19/1966 | See Source »

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