Word: slap
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...McGeorge Bundy's reply to that asinine group of professors at St. Louis' Washington University was a masterpiece. It should go down in history as "the perfect squelch." Let us hope that more of our officials take McBundy's fine example and slap a few of these intellectuals down when they poke their academic noses outside of their classrooms. Let's put uniforms on a few of them for a starter...
...will finish Radcliffe in only three years, has written and produced a play called A Slap in the Faith at Harvard's Loeb Theater ("five acts of doggerel"), is planning to write for the movies and simultaneously "looking forward to being a wife and mother" when she marries a Harvard grad this June. But right now, says Banker David's daughter Neva Goodwin Rockefeller, 20, want to enjoy some of the things that go with the name before I stop being a Rockefeller." So for "a lark," she's accepted an invitation to be Queen...
...astounded to discover that Israeli officials were not exactly jumping with joy. For one thing, anti-German feelings lie bone-deep in many Israelis; for another, everyone recognized that Erhard's decision was prompted less by a desire to do right by Israel than by a need to slap back at Gamal Abdel Nasser, who has been diplomatically flirting with East Germany...
Banged Ear. In recent years, Tory Leo Amery crossed the floor to slap the face of Laborite George Buchanan; Labor's Emmanuel Shinwell, outraged at a reference to his Polish ancestry, punched Tory Commander Robert Bower (once an amateur boxing champion) and damaged his eardrum. Conservative Ronald McNeil obtained a sort of immortality by throwing a book at Winston Churchill; he missed...
...slap was aimed not only at the Prime Minister but at his party and platform as well, as Tory Leader Sir Alec Douglas-Home was quick to emphasize. "It is the country's verdict on the first 100 days of Socialism in practice," crowed Sir Alec. Added Jo Grimond, leader of the Liberal Party in the House of Commons: "If Mr. Wil son wants to stay in office, he really must start doing things which appeal to a wider public than the hard-core Socialist voters...