Word: slap
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...battle of Sidra left a few smoking Libyan boats and one large question mark: Will America's slap at Gaddafi deter or stimulate further terrorism? The Administration believes that its response will induce Gaddafi to be cautious. "If people know they are likely to get clobbered if they act up, they are likely to think twice about it," said Brent Scowcroft, National Security Adviser under Gerald Ford. But Gaddafi was hardly clobbered this time around. He has vowed, and there is no reason to disbelieve him, that he will continue his war against the U.S. in an arena in which...
...that the contras need help than to make the most of Nicaraguan troops crossing the border to attack the rebels in their Honduran sanctuaries? Speaking at a political fund raiser in New Orleans last week, Reagan was not subtle in his message: The Nicaraguan attack, he declared, was a "slap in the face" to those in Congress who voted against contra...
Unfortunately, news of Mulroney's success was all but overshadowed back home by some undiplomatic behavior at a diplomatic do. As a party honoring Vice President George Bush was getting under way at the Canadian embassy, Sondra Gotlieb, the Ambassador's wife, slapped her social secretary, Connie Connor. A dozen guests and members of the Canadian press corps looked on aghast. Washington was stunned by the uncharacteristic gaffe; the Gotliebs are considered one of the most popular and able diplomatic couples in the U.S. capital. The slap was apparently the result of tension over an important guest...
...like an unwary calf caught midstream, preparing to strip it to the bone. Leading the attack, of course, is the Antichrist. Making horrible little humming and clucking noises, he rips through my story, eyebrows galloping wildly across the unnatural expanse of his forehead. Each mark he makes is a slap in the face, a stain on my honor...
Yale's leading scorer fired a slap shot past Dadswell, and the Elis pulled to an early 1-0 lead...