Word: slap
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Worlds of Luxury. The slap hammer will work on any make of automobile. It is just one device employed by New York car thieves; another is the Curtis key punch, which costs about $150 and will fit in a shoe box. Using a code stamped on the lock tumblers of all American and most foreign cars, an operator can quickly make a "slave key" that will work in both door and ignition...
Oscar and his pals can work fast because of a simple device known in the trade as a "slap hammer." The gadget is essentially a thin steel rod with a movable weight attached to it; inserted into a lock, it can pull the lock tumbler out of a car door in seconds...
Front End and Grille. Oscar, Jackie and Mickey started out in what has almost become an apprentice program for aspiring auto thieves. They began in "piece work," slap-hammering late-model Buicks and Cadillacs, which were sold for $50 each to mob-controlled wholesalers in Brooklyn and Queens. The cars were then cut up by highly skilled body men, and their components sold by crooked parts-and-junk dealers who stood to make almost as much as the car was worth when whole. The front end and grille of a Cadillac can bring as much...
...Anderson put the Terriers back in the lead with his second goal of the game, a long slap shot past Bretagna's arm. Harvard struck back only two minutes later, an Bob McManama fed Dave Hynes from behind the cage...
Early in the wage-price freeze, labor leaders and some Democrats urged President Nixon to slap controls on interest rates too The Administration refused, contending that free-market rates were poised for a drop that controls might actually prevent. As Phase II begins, with loan charges still uncontrolled, that judgment seems vindicated. Interest rates have declined substantially over a broad front, making this part of Nixon's New Economic Policy an unqualified success for the moment...