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Word: slap (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Clarkson forward Roger Purdie scored the only goal of the second period at 3:02. Adams opened the third period scoring with a long slap-shot that went off goalie Godfrey Wood's glove into the nets. The Black Knights made the score 4-1 less than two minutes later when Dick Jason flicked the puck high into the right-hand corner...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sextet Beaten Twice By New York Schools | 1/14/1963 | See Source »

...guys ever praise anybody or anything without running down somebody else? This time, via the Lombardi story, you overinflate football by the glib expedient of deflating basketball, tennis, hockey, boxing and baseball. Talk about a slow-motion bore: huddle, slap, squat, shift, squat, pass, incomplete, whistle, penalty, time out, substitution, huddle, slap, squat, shift, squat, pass, incomplete, whistle, penalty, substitution, huddle, slap, squat, shift, pass, fumble, gun, final score: 0-0-and the fans could be all the way to Chicago by jet, and return...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jan. 4, 1963 | 1/4/1963 | See Source »

Army hopes were further boosted at the opening of the second period, when right wing Bart Barry shot a hard 30-foot slap shot into the left-hand corner of the cage. Wood made a stab for it, but his glove only tipped the passing puck...

Author: By Anthony H. Scholl, (SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON) | Title: Cadets Hold Crimson to Tie; Large Rink Causes Poor Play | 12/20/1962 | See Source »

...might as well slap a grocery-store trading stamp on my Christmas greeting-card envelope as disgrace it with that utterly tasteless, uninspired label offered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 16, 1962 | 11/16/1962 | See Source »

...justice is for barter and sale to the highest bidder. No one thinks about principle any more. They are ready to sell justice!" Then he proceeded to astonish his colleagues with direct, personal attacks on the leaders of his own party in the House, wound up with a withering slap at Speaker John McCormack. "I have sat under ten Speakers," roared Cannon. "I have never seen such biased and inept leadership...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Congress: The Death of the 87th | 10/19/1962 | See Source »

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