Word: slap
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hungary's festival pales by comparison with the old days, when Magyar aristocrats would spit on a 100-forint note (worth about $12.50), slap it on a gypsy's forehead, and demand passionate violin-playing until the spittle dried and the note fell off. But all things considered, it is gay enough. At Budapest's Press Ball last week, young men in stovepipe trousers and girls in daringly décolleté dresses performed a writhing twist that onlookers pointed to with a touch of pride as their own "dirty twist." For the monster masked balls that...
John Cook, Princeton's all-Ivy forward and the league's leading scorer, opened the evening with a long slap shot wide of the Crimson nets. That was about as close as the toothless Tigers came the rest of the night...
...Slap shots from the blue line by defensemen Mike Patterson, Harry Howell, and Dave Johnston soon stopped Dartmouth's bunching tactics on defense, opening the way for the Crimson's high-scoring line...
Patterson's fluke goal came at 5:35 of the first period and was followed by a hard Howell slap-shot at the 17 minute mark. The tally gave coach Cooney Weiland's team a two goal margin it never relinquished...
...Crimson tied the score for a second time on a picture pass play from Johnson to left wing Barry Treadwell, at 19:27, Ten seconds later, Northeastern, playing better hockey than it had say right to play, forged ahead 3 to 2 on a slap shot from Ed LeMormand...