Word: slap
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...GRADY is a red-faced masonry contractor from North Carolina who likes to kibbitz with reporters in the newsroom of The Winston-Salem Journal. Walking clumsily, his big belly swaying over his belt with every step, he'd nod his head at the lady journalists, slap the backs of the men, lean on the edge of a file cabinet, and begin to expound...
...rectitude. A third shuffles toward the wing's edge with the rumpled calm of a country doctor. A beautiful woman, all the more striking because she has no hair, and a young flight officer stare straight ahead. When the cameras stop rolling, a makeup aide moves in to slap some goo on the woman's head-she shaves twice a day to avoid 5 o'clock shadow-while the men lean over the platform's railing to talk to onlookers below. "Does anyone have a prayer?" quips William Shatner, a.k.a. Captain James T. Kirk...
...Eagles jumped to a 1-0 advantage at 2:39 of the first stanza. B.C.'s Charlie Antetomaso picked up an errant Jim Trainor pass in the Harvard end and drilled a 20-foot slap shot past a surprised Lau. Harvard and B.C. both mustered ten shots on goal, but the Crimson could not find the range...
There is nothing like Commencement, however, for waking up from a reading period stupor. There is, as the man once said, "always something" to slap you in the face, to dash a little cold water at you before you start out on a hot summer day. The slap this year came from Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, who journeyed down from exile in Vermont to pick up an honorary degree and chide America for flabby morals and a lack of purpose. The national press took note, as it usually does when people start talking about morals or anything else at a Harvard Commencement...
...rebound bounced on the left to Bedard, who fed the puck back to Don O'Brien on the point. O'Brien, who scored the short-handed goal in overtime to win the opener at Watson Rink last season, would be denied this time--but the rebound of the slap shot would...