Word: slap
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Some analysts interpreted the vote as a slap at Labor's attempt to transform conservative Australia into a welfare state, plus a protest against inflation, which has more than doubled in the year that Whitlam has been Prime Minister. The independent Melbourne Age offered an even gloomier interpretation. It saw an "ominous precedent" in the vote, noting that the last time a Labor government had ruled the country, its ouster (in 1949) was preceded by a similar rejection of a referendum over the issue of federal control of prices...
Launching slap-shots willy-nilly...
Buckton took a perfect pass in close to beat Crimson netminder John Aiken at 5:17. Bannerman followed with a slap shot deflection past Aiken at 6:31. Bishop made it 4-0 at 8:15 and it looked as though B.U. would blow Harvard out of the rink...
Coming into the third period, the Yardlings' play was noticeably more aggressive. Less than ten minutes into that period, Pierre Paquette was assisted by Bill Horton in scoring. Two minutes later, on an assist from Mike Leckie and Bill MacKenzie, Horton slapped one in, and Harvard led by two points. Victory looked inevitable when Bill Hozack, assisted by Kenneth Dummitt and Jeremy Wintersteen, let fly with a slap shot from about twenty feet out. The hard-worked Dartmouth goalie could be heard cursing clear across the rink...
...colleagues the next day to write up a supplemental account. They prefaced it with the disclaimer that they still thought the event "insignificant." But recalling Eaton's demonstration, Zimmerman filed a story to the Journal for the issue of Monday, Nov. 19, saying that Nixon had "soundly slapped" the man's face. In a story for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, James Deakin quoted from the pool account but added a detail that he had personally learned from Cooney and Eaton: "Reporters heard the man say it was a hard slap...