Word: slap
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Going Like 60. With all this welcome overhaul for the safety cocoon, the airlines and pilots still find plenty to squawk about. Pilots charge that FAA inspectors are harassing them. Indeed, the inspectors, backed heartily by Quesada, seem to materialize in cockpits like eager gremlins, ready to slap a fine on a pilot for the slightest infraction of the rule book. With each infraction, Quesada gets tougher. After a Pan American Boeing 707 started into a near fatal dive while its pilot was back chinning with the passengers, Quesada enforced a long-disregarded regulation requiring all pilots to stay...
With a sly slap at the banks, Heller describes himself as a foe of "institution-alization," gives his men great latitude to make their own judgments. "A man can assume his own responsibility here," he says. "I never rub a man's hair in a mistake." Because the firm's response is so fast and sure, many clients who have graduated into the "bankable" class prefer to continue working with Heller...
...less than five minutes, the varsity had pulled away for keeps on Greg Downes' blue-line slap shot that Bob Anderson deflected past the Tufts net-minder. The Jumbos' goalie, Ken Tondreau, proved himself quite competent, but had little help from his teammates. He turned away 56 shots during the evening...
Standing at the corner of the crease, Dwinell pushed in Dave Grannis' slap shot for a score halfway through the third period. With the help of a Norwich defenseman, Dwinell scored the coup de grace to Masaschi by bouncing the puck off the back of his opponent from behind the cage...
Playing first line, McVey scored four goals during the course of the evening, while Owen, at second defense, scored two. Against the varsity, Owen was credited with an assist; his slap shot rebound was pushed in by Bob Williams of Minnesota...