Word: slap
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After Dartmouth had scored three of those baskets in a row, Smith encouraged centers Holpuch and Wendy Joseph to front Diagle on defense to cut off a possible lob pass, while guards Pat Horne and Anne Scannell waited behind her to slap the ball from her hands it the pass got through. That defensive ploy worked well, but playing defense has its costs. Both Horne and Scannell fould out in the last minutes of play...
Cries of protest greeted Giamatti's decision from all sides. A representative of a group called Solidarity International of Connecticut Inc. called it a "slap in the face," and criticized Giamatti for not allowing the singers to "lift a finger in support of that embattled and impoverished nation." Columnist William F. Buckley criticized Giamatti's plea that the University not speak out on political issues. "Perhaps a glee club representing a university less fastidious than Yale will...risk its reputation by siding with the men and women of Poland," he wrote in a syndicated column last week...
...slap against the already injured and bloody face of our country...
...than a theater screen, may wring a reasonable amount of fun from Bring 'Em Back Alive (CBS, Tuesdays, 8 p.m. E.S.T.), which appropriates the dashing slogan, cut-to-measure mythos and even the name of the 1930s animal hunter Frank Buck. Mounted like an old Republic serial, the slap-happy adventure show boasts a congenial leading man in Bruce Boxleitner. He is required to trap all manner of jungle animals without doing them physical harm and, not incidentally, battle Nazis, Asian warlords and assorted jetsam that floats past Malaya...
...swift approval and adoption of the Comprehensive Plan (released in January and put into effect by September) could be seen as yet another slap in the face for Quad residents, their wishes and concerns disregarded. But there seems to be a consensus that the plan has worked out well. "Even though there was great hue and cry at times, the judgement is that it was definitely a good thing to do," says Hershbach. Unification of freshmen in the Yard and nearby Union dorms seems to offer at least one common Harvard experience for undergraduates, officials agree. Hanna Hastings recalls that...