Word: slapped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Usurpation of Power. Harmony, as it happens, was the last thing the deputies achieved. The Anglo-Catholic publication American Church News denounced the vote as "an outrageous usurpation by the laity of the teaching function of the church," and as a slap at the "hundreds of courageous priests who have joined in the most significant social revolution of our time." Federal Judge Thurgood Marshall, first Negro to represent the Diocese of New York at the General Convention, thought so too. He walked out of the House of Deputies and went home...
judicial funds, including the pay of all federal judges and Government law yers. They transport federal prisoners (79,000 last year), serve all federal court papers, from jury notices to Supreme Court orders - a chore that often takes wit and wile. To slap a desegregation injunction on Alabama's well-guarded George Wallace, for example, one deputy marshal stowed away in the men's room aboard the Governor's plane. Marshals have been called upon to seize entire businesses, not to mention stolen art works and such other oddments as a shipment of "Helene Curtis Magic Secret...
...enough lamentation. This Lampoon is, as I said before, another story. What's to be bitter? It's funny. And now, the palable crux of this innovation: four "distillations" of four Harvard publications. Caustic, sophisticated, sometimes subtle, sometimes slap-stick--honestly, they're just marvelous. A pity that freshmen, whom these parodies are designed to initiate, are unfamiliar with the archetypes, here so unmercifully stripped down to their naked pretensions...
...this seemed "like a slap in the face" to Staff Sergeant James R. Mabry, 27, who entered the Air Force from Wisconsin. Like most non-Texan servicemen in Texas, Mabry did not vote by absentee ballot in his home state. Moreover, he has been stationed in Bexar County (San Antonio) since 1959, owns a home there on which he pays taxes like any other resident. Yet last January, when he and his wife paid poll taxes, Mabry's receipt (unlike his wife's) was stamped "not eligible to vote." Precisely the same thing happened to his friend...
...film about the slums of Rio de Janeiro, the lady smiled on every scene he shot-Black Orpheus is a cinemusical masterpiece. But when he lazily decided to remake the same movie in the slums and ruins of Cambodia, the lady gave him a sharp slap in the face-Dragon Sky is just an interesting failure...