Word: slap
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dismay," Lois Stalvey writes, "I learned for the first time that my children expected teachers to slap, hit, kick children"-some of the children, that is. The school's white principal and both black and white teachers treated white children and their parents with respect and attention. But the lower-income black children, whose speech, dress and attitudes often alienated their middle-class teachers, were consistently humiliated, labeled "slow" or "stupid" and physically abused...
...stirring rendition of the "Copper Country National Anthem" by the Tech band brought the 500 inspired Husky fans to their feet just before the third period face-off and the Tech icemen responded by tying the game on a couple of slap shots in the third period...
...night belonged to MacKenzie, who kept 39 out of 40 shots from entering Yale's net. It was only a Bob Goodenow slap shot at 13:31 of the final period with Harvard skating in its fifth minute of power play (Yale picked up three successive penalties, spaced just less than two minutes apart from each other) that prevented MacKenzie from getting the shutout...
...companies have come in for heavy criticism from Congress, which resounds with cries to roll back surging oil and gasoline prices, repeal special tax benefits that the oil companies get and slap on an excess-profits tax. A few Senators and Representatives are even talking seriously about wholly or partly nationalizing Exxon and other U.S. oil companies...
Networks-not to mention other news organizations-rarely pillory themselves in public. Don Hewitt, executive producer of 60 Minutes, reports no attempts by CBS executives to soften the intramural slap: "I've not felt any pressure or even heard from anyone at the network, although it's obvious that they knew that we were filming Fanning." (Asked on the show whether CBS was "buying" his opinion, Fanning says: "It just plain isn't true. In the first place, all the networks do it.") Reporter Mike Wallace offers some tart, on-the-air criticism of his network: "Ironically...