Search Details

Word: slap (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...slap? when? where...

Author: By Seth M. Kupferberg and Tom Lee, S | Title: The Know-Your-President-Warts-and-All Quiz | 5/28/1974 | See Source »

First he flipped home a backhand shot then five minutes later made it 3-1 on a long slap shot...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Resurrected Bruins Whip Flyers, 5-1 | 5/17/1974 | See Source »

...been denounced on the floor of the Oklahoma legislature, been called "bastard" by state officials and a "lying s.o.b." by a newspaper publisher. A fellow editor once threatened to "slap his teeth out," while another stormed that he was not fit to lick boots. To such aspersions "Frosty" Troy retorts: "I'm a zealot." Then he returns to making more enemies in his job as the publisher, editor and principal reporter of the Oklahoma Observer (circ. 4,164), a twice-monthly tabloid that hits wealthy and powerful Sooners like a dust storm. Says Ed Hardy, press secretary to Oklahoma...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Sooner Scrouge | 5/6/1974 | See Source »

...cartel, named Union de Paises Exportadores del Banano (Union of Banana Exporting Countries), was formed by Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama. It proposes to slap a $1 export tax on every 40-lb. box of bananas leaving Latin America, 50 times the present 20 tax paid by major exporters. In the U.S., which is the world's top banana in imports of the yellow fruit, the tax boost could raise retail prices from the present 16%0 per Ib. to as much as 190. The International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRADE: The New Export Cartel | 4/29/1974 | See Source »

...dismay," Lois Stalvey writes, "I learned for the first time that my children expected teachers to slap, hit, kick children"-some of the children, that is. The school's white principal and both black and white teachers treated white children and their parents with respect and attention. But the lower-income black children, whose speech, dress and attitudes often alienated their middle-class teachers, were consistently humiliated, labeled "slow" or "stupid" and physically abused...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Making Bad Kids | 4/22/1974 | See Source »

Previous | 267 | 268 | 269 | 270 | 271 | 272 | 273 | 274 | 275 | 276 | 277 | 278 | 279 | 280 | 281 | 282 | 283 | 284 | 285 | 286 | 287 | Next