Word: slap
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Blair's final stats spoke for themselves--a 91.0 save percentage and a 3.09 goals-against average--numbers earned working with a blue-line corps whose play was perhaps best exemplified by Captain Ken Code. A small, choppy player praised for the accuracy rather than the force of his slap-shots. Codes led the Crimson not with speeches, but by on ice example...
...public hearings last year on tougher measures, a hastily organized group calling itself the United Woodburners of Missoula County staged a "Right to Burn" march that flaunted placards proclaiming WOODBURNERS ARE WARM PEOPLE. In November the commissioners passed a watered-down set of regulations that empowered local inspectors to slap warnings and then citations carrying fines up to $100 on those who continue to burn wood during a pollution alert in a designated area. Thus far, inspectors, who have been cursed, threatened and, in one case, even cornered in a room for 20 minutes, have handed out some 100 warnings...
...nine months of this year compared with the same period in 1982, American steel companies are again demanding trade protection. Says U.S. Steel Chairman David Roderick: "Importation has reached dangerous levels." Last month U.S. Steel filed complaints with the Commerce Department against Brazil, Mexico and Argentina, asking Washington to slap tariffs on imports from those countries. According to U.S. Steel, government-subsidized industries are selling shipments in the U.S. at below their cost of production. Earlier this year the Commerce Department found that Brazil was selling wire rod at discounts...
WATCHING Gorky Park is like taking a long walk though an endless forest on a cold wintry day as the snow and ice-leaden branches slap our faces. Based on the superb spy thriller by Martin Cruz Smith, this film hypnotizes us with its briskly paced plot, providing a whirl-wind tour of Moscow, snow-covered country estates, and Russian espionage organizations. The novel Gorky Park rivals John Le Carre's Smiley's People and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy with a systematic, psychological unravelling of a bizarre mystery. Like Robert Ludlum's intricate tales, including Parsifal Mosaic, each minute...
With just under six minutes left in the period, Wheeler knocked in a Chiarelli rebound to tie it once more. But the deadlock lasted only 54 seconds, until right wing Malt Winnicki skated down the right side and blasted a powerful slap shot into the far upper corner of the goal...