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Word: slap (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...minute later, on the power play. Smith found the rebound of a Mark Banning slap shot on his blade...

Author: By Nick Wurf, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Icemen Work Overtime | 12/10/1984 | See Source »

...power play has been spearheaded by Fusco who does more than just lead the unit on the ice. The junior gets the Crimson a lot of extra-man opportunities when he gets hauled down by slap-happy opponents...

Author: By Nick Wurf, | Title: Lying in Wait at Lynah-Cornell Crazies Ready for Crimson | 12/8/1984 | See Source »

...best of contemporary novelist-travel writers, he takes a melancholy view of lands that are past their primes. In the city of Kenya he discovers a universal shabbiness imposed by the use of concrete: "The Asiatics' love of bright colors, too, is betrayed by the plastic paint they slap on everywhere, which flakes and peels as the colors of their native fabrics and tiles never did." A few passages border on old-fashioned disrespectful wog-whomping, though some of the author's deepest disdain is reserved for the scraggly, underwashed Western students who can be found everywhere: "They...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: In the Land of Far Beyond | 11/26/1984 | See Source »

...Shamie] is a son of immigrants; he was not born to wealth and privilege," Reagan said in an apparent slap at Kerry, a graduate of Exeter Academy and Yale University with Brahmin roots...

Author: By Michael W. Hirdchorn, | Title: Reagan Woos Youth at Rally | 11/2/1984 | See Source »

...think they both looked pretty good, and in a sense that is bad for Mondale. Mondale appeared to be his same competent self, but the President looked on his form. If the Democrats counted on this becoming a knockout blow to slap Reagan down to even money, I'm sure that didn't happen. After what was first perceived to be a drop in the polls for Reagan, he's almost bounced all the way back. Since the first debate had in the long run only a limited effect, my guess is that the second one will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Points for Style and Substance | 10/29/1984 | See Source »

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