Word: slap
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Vicious Slap...
...Sheppard, referring to the Faculty's refusal to endorse the strike's demands concerning employees, said that "The University has already put a vicious slap in the face of employees who have gone out on strike," and urged the group to "take action to enforce those demands...
TUESDAY afternoon's Faculty meeting came as a slap in the face to the large number of Harvard students who had hoped for a unified University reaction against the President's policy of genocide in Indochina. By merely voicing an unofficial condemnation of Administration policy, the Faculty in effect opted out of taking any positive action that might help bring about an end to the killing at home and in Southeast Asia...
...government is supposed to have paid for them a long time ago. And if they don't masses of the people, not only black people, but even the young white students are going to rise up against the government, to slap them in the face and make them pay for it. What it's going to entail, though, is black people institutionalizing such programs in the community, where they have control over them...
Bulgaria's Balkan is hardly the traveler's dream airline. Pilots do not land; they slap the planes onto the ground. Darkly exotic stewardesses dispense local drinks in tranquilizing amounts. Balkan rates last in ground efficiency, ends its flights at a scruffy terminal in Sofia. The restaurant is poor, but has a captive clientele since taxi service is worse...