Word: slap
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...slap was only one of many this year, as Harvard continually turned a deaf ear to students' concerns. This tendency to ignore student concerns was exemplified in the University's refusal to substantially improve campus security...
...weakened version of the affirmative action report is not only an attempt to lessen the non-administrative faculty voice, but also a direct slap in the face to a substantial group of students who have been committed to forcing FAS and the University to increase its minority hiring...
Many law-enforcement experts point to the drug war as an example of the hopelessness of curing crime by locking up an ever larger number of criminals. In September, New York City unleashed a tactical narcotics team to make | undercover drug buys, allowing police to slap dealers with felony charges for selling narcotics. The result: a 30% upswing in drug arrests. And the ripple effect: severe overcrowding at the city's squalid holding pen on Rikers Island. Prisoners often sleep on the floor in receiving areas where 90 men may share a single toilet...
...sense of gloom. He recounted to the throng that on a recent inspection trip to Knight Island he had seen a great pod of whales offshore. There were as many as 40, so close that he could hear the sound of their exhalations when they surfaced and the slap of their flukes when they dived once more. Seeing how the huge sea mammals were skirting the oil but not fleeing the area gave Kelso new optimism about Alaska's ability to recover. Said he: "I realized that there is hope...
Freshman defenseman Brian McCormack set up Krayer's goal with a slap shot from the left side of the blue line. Stauber made the save, but the Minnesota defense couldn't clear out the puck...