Word: slap
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...marriage lasted only 14 months. Recalls Bersbach, now a Chicago printing executive: "You know how these divorces are. Somebody testified that they saw me slap her twice. Actually, I've never slapped a woman in my life. She was a darn attractive girl, very vivacious, but she liked to bounce around.'' The divorce was granted on June...
Mecham demanded that the U.S. withdraw immediately from the United Nations, raked the Supreme Court with the accusation that in its school prayer decision it had "leaned over backward to slap God in the face." Said Mecham of the Kennedy Administration: "I can't believe our leaders are traitors, as some have charged, but they certainly must be uninformed when the President refers to the nation's businessmen as s.o.b.s." Like Shadegg, Mecham circulated photos of himself with Goldwater...
Gratuitous Slap. Thus, for the first time since he reached power, Castro had on hand flesh-and-blood soldiers...
Back in Moscow, Khrushchev obviously enjoyed what he had wrought. In a gratuitous slap in the face for the U.S. and President Kennedy, he announced that "during the stay in the U.S.S.R. of Ernesto Guevara Serna [better known as Che] . . . the government of the Cuban republic addressed the Soviet government with a request for help by delivering armaments and sending technical specialists for training Cuban servicemen. Agreement was reached. As long as aggressive imperialist quarters continue threatening Cuba, the Cuban republic has every justification for taking measures to ensure its security . . . while all Cuba's true friends have every...
...NATO Council. De Gaulle apparently felt slighted because Kennedy was reportedly using the NATO appointment as a convenient way of moving Lemnitzer, with whose performance as Chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs he had not been happy. Besides showing his usual touchiness, De Gaulle's little slap was a reminder that the new Europe considers itself the equal of the U.S., and that France (which has yet to make available to NATO more than two of the four infantry divisions it promised) is determined to play its own independent role...