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...figure is stout, her bust formidable, her manner blunt. Among the urbane Oxford and Cambridge tones of the House of Commons, her voice sounds rough and raucous as a Liverpool fishwife's. In the mannered cut-and-thrust of debate, her points are as emphatic as the slap of a wet cod across a face. Newspapers poke sly fun at her, other M.P.s snicker at her, county squires snort: "She's a disgrace to public life." But among her constituents in Liverpool's grimy dockland, Mrs. Bessie Braddock, M.P., is a beloved and admired champion...
...Still and Mark Rothko, was among the first to rebel against it. While the fad was still at its height, he walked Manhattan's 57th Street with his canvases under his arm, vainly trying to interest the dealers in his own new approach to painting. But when the slap and dab of abstract-expressionism began to become a bore, the time was ripe for Individualist Hultberg...
...boutonniere and his physical handicaps with a winning courage, the temporary Premier overlooked no opportunity to nail down his job. In the tradition of prewar Premiers, he hurried to the great Ise shrines to notify the Shinto gods of his election-a gesture of nationalism and a studied slap at foreigners who had tried to reduce the chauvinistic role of Shintoism. He distributed promises-cheaper fertilizer, lower taxes, more jobs. But most of all he appealed to Japan's reawakened pride as a nation, able once-more to stand on its own, free to make foreign friends and commitments...
...Wolverines first line scored again at 17:05 when a barrage of players screened Flynn from a high, bouncing slap shot. The sharp Michigan sextet, playing with only ten men during the first two periods, added a third tally at 3:21 of the second period before the varsity could net its first goal...
...slap shot by Mahoney at 1:29 in the final stanza brought the varsity within one goal of Michigan's elusive lead, but one minute later Captain McFarland was off again, and the Wolverines all but extinguished the Crimson's hopes for its first national title with two quick goals...