Word: slap
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...means a lot to us ot 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, pre-scrubbed Yale man murmurs in her ear, "Please, dear--all the other fellows are doing...
...Force supplied navigational gadgets to help foil the jammers, and airline pilots were going through courses last week to learn their use; already the equipment was being installed by Pan Am on the DC-6Bs it employs on the Berlin run. Plans were being discussed to slap restrictions on planes of Communist airlines on Western routes if trouble comes. And there was another way to combat obstruction of the airlanes: armed fighter escorts to fly alongside the commercial aircraft, ready to defend them with gunfire if necessary...
Even as the delegates began to stream in, word reached Belgrade of Russia's announcement that it intended to resume nuclear testing. The news struck the neutrals like a slap in the face. Hardly united and agreed on anything except their common animus against a big-power thermonuclear holocaust that would endanger them all, the neutralists at first greeted the news with grim silence. Only India's Nehru stated bleakly: "I am against nuclear tests anywhere...
...normally effete press bristled with outrage; virtually every major newspaper attacked Mikoyan's meddling. Headlined one: JAPAN GETS RUN-AROUND FROM ANASTAS. Tokyo's Shimbun warned that Mikoyan's "parrotings of repeated threats by Premier Khrushchev" were no way to "make any sales." In a slap at a visiting statesman that was unprecedented for the polite Japanese, Ikeda's party issued a statement branding Mikoyan's threats as an "interference in Japan's domestic affairs." It went on to hint that Mikoyan might very well go home emptyhanded: "Utilizing an expansion of trade through...
Charlie Chaplin once explained: "When I walk right up and slap a grand lady because she gave me a contemptuous look, it is really right. -They won't admit it, but it's right, and that is why they laugh. I make them conscious of the reality of life. 'You think this is it, don't you?' I say. 'Well, it isn't, but this is-see?' And then they laugh...