Word: slap
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harvard jumped off to an early lead, scoring its only goal late in the first period. Junior center Pete Miller picked up the goal unassisted on a pretty backhand slap shot from the right-hand side of the rink. The puck slipped past the St. Nick's goalie into the upper left-hand corner...
...means a lot to us to feel a hearty Yale slap on our backs. (And think what delightful shivers will go down the spine of each lucky girl when her very own, prescrubbed Yale man murmurs in her ear, "Please dear--all the other fellows are doing...
...Eyes. He has stormed at pretension and what he considers meretriciousness or bad taste. His two daughters, Bridget, 7, and Kate, 6, are not allowed to watch "shoot 'em up" shows or waste a minute on Soupy Sales, a slap-sticking echo of vaudeville who appears on TV's children's hour. The first time that Ed Sullivan booked the Beatles, O'Brian praised the act. But after the air waves filled with Beatle imitators, he called a halt. "If this vast musical wasteland, this sump, continues," he wrote in his column, "it inevitably will encourage...
...that things were going to get efficient or he would know the reason why, Brezhnev proclaimed his intention "to combat resolutely red tape and window dressing." He called for "fuller use of the material incentive," meaning the profit motive, in "overcoming the lag of agricultural production." In an indirect slap at Chinese collectivization, Brezhnev announced the removal of "unfounded restrictions" on private farming-"the plots of land worked by farmers, factory and office workers"-restrictions that Brezhnev even more than Khrushchev realizes are a drag on Soviet output...
...answer is twofold. First, since the single wing is practically extinct, teams no longer construct defenses to cope with it. Princeton's opponents must hastily slap together new defensive formations, with no time for the players to learn them well...