Word: slap
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...three Oscar nominations, innumerable charity works and goodwill tours, and a Medal of | Freedom from the President, the 71-year-old star is finally ready to cede the spotlight. As proof, he records a chance meeting with a beautiful admirer. "I suck in my gut, puff out my chest, slap a bicep. In a velvet voice, she says, 'Wow! Michael Douglas's father!' " Issur should live so long...
...Grosz, 57. Installed as Prime Minister last June, Grosz, along with most Hungarians, has lately grown impatient with Kadar's determination to hang on to power. In April the Prime Minister told the daily Magyar Hirlap that politicians should not try to disobey "biological laws," an all but direct slap at the leader who has come to be known unflatteringly in Hungary as "Old Uncle Janos...
...criticism. Yet apart from its astrological revelations and acid-limned portrait of the First Lady, it is not so much in a class by itself as the latest addition to a long, groaning shelf. Deaver. Haig. Stockman. Speakes. Regan. Even two Reagan children, Patti and Michael, have written slap-and-yell books about the First Family. And more are on the way. Helene von Damm, once Reagan's personal assistant and later Ambassador to Austria, has reportedly penned something less than a valentine to the First Family, and a new book by former White House Aide Martin Anderson describes Reagan...
When Harvard tried to slap on its patented pressure defense in the fourth period, it rarely worked. The Crimson did manage to snuff out two critical Engineer power plays in the first half...
Unlike some of the other candiates, Lee is not a lifetime bureaucrat. The political process is far too tedious a game for Lee, who offers practical solutions. "If someone's doing something wrong," he says, "slap him upside the head and tell him he's full of shit." Lee, a long-time vegetarian, explains he means that literally--that some people, specifically those who eat red meat, actually are full...