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Word: slap (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Simplex Steering Committee members repeated their concerns about unrestricted development after the Monday session, and called the councillor's move to substitute a compromise plan for their own petition "a slap in the face...

Author: By L. JOSEPH Garcia, | Title: Council Fails to Change Cambridgeport Zoning | 2/2/1983 | See Source »

...orderly person who is ejected from a public restaurant. The rest of the column was devoted to a classic example of what O'Keeffe so greatly fears: a 750-word, clinical rundown on a Chinese restaurant, including the likeliest days to get a decent meal and a wrist-slap for the rest rooms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Dictator of Dining Out | 1/17/1983 | See Source »

Mark Fusco, the Crimson's All-American blueliner, had his best game of the season, twice carrying the puck from his own net into the offensive zone and grooving nasty slap-shots between the pads of defenseless netminder Gray Weicker...

Author: By Michael Bass, | Title: Undefeated Saints Take One From Icemen, 4-3 | 1/10/1983 | See Source »

...eerie youthfulness. Newman was 42 in 1967, for instance, when he appeared in Cool Hand Luke, a character who looked about 28, and who would not have made sense as a man much older than that; he was 52 in 1977 when he played Reggie Dunlop in Slap Shot, an over-the-hill hockey player who looked 39½. In person now, without makeup, he might...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Paul Newman: Verdict on a Superstar | 12/6/1982 | See Source »

...Slap Shot (1977): One of my favorite movies. Unfortunately that character is a lot closer to me than I would care to admit-vulgar, on the skids...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: His Own Critic: Newman on Newman | 12/6/1982 | See Source »

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