Word: slap
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Haig's gesture was hardly even a slap on Gromyko's wrist. The Soviet Foreign Minister had come to Geneva hoping not so much for an announcement of future negotiations as for an opportunity to play to a West European audience...
...started for a minute, swallowing the grin all at once--no easy feat. Just then Harvard's Mark Fusco ripped a vicious slap shot from the point by a bewildered Demetroulakas. Home 3, visitors 0. Mumbling something about finding some popcorn to go with his pride, he pardoned and excused himself all the way to the aisle, disappearing into the crowd...
...such, the Corporation decision represents a slap in the face to the students who battled so long to get even this small concession. The men who run the University reason, and probably correctly, that not many students here currently will care, certainly not care enough to do anything...
...fact that the plane clipped it at a moment of high traffic, one routine thus intersecting another and disrupting both. Then, too, there was the location of the event. Washington, the city of form and regulations, turned chaotic, deregulated, by a blast of real winter and a single slap of metal on metal. The jets from Washington National Airport that normally swoop around the presidential monuments like famished gulls are, for the moment, emblemized by the one that fell; so there is that detail. And there was the aesthetic clash as well-blue-and-green Air Florida, the name...
Apparently the jury did not find either side's case convincing and compromised with a slap-on-the-wrist verdict...