Word: slapped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...extreme cynics. Some get consistent Gentlemen's C's. Others spend every weekend in Peru, pay someone to take their exams for them, and get bounced out. In every case, their grades make sense, as a measure of innate ability, cleverness, or writing skill. A bad mark is a slap in the face. If they are in A-1 condition on exam day, or hit on a really neat trick, they can pretty certainly rack up. They can tell whether they have pulled it off from the moment they finish writing. When a student Scoffs and succeeds, like...
Included in the workshop will be instructions on how to use nonviolent techniques in dangerous situations. In the past such training has included little dramas, in which the trainee will pretend to be a field-worker, while other members of the group curse him, spit on him, shove, slap, and hit him. SNCC members have found that these practice sessions help make the real-life confrontations less strange and frightening...
...Stinging Slap. Two weeks ago in Kansas, for example, two-term Governor John Anderson sought election as a delegate at the state convention in Topeka. But he refused to pledge himself to Arizona's Senator Barry Goldwater, and the Goldwater forces thereupon steamrollered him. They engineered the election of a lackluster pro-Goldwater woman, thus dealt the Governor a stinging slap...
...many Hungarians flocked to Czechoslovakia to buy lingerie and razor blades, which were almost unattainable in Hungary, that the Czech government was forced to slap spending restrictions on the Hungarians to prevent a shortage of the same items in Czechoslovakia. Czechoslovakian retailers last year had to return nearly $70 million worth of goods that their customers did not need and would not buy, while neighboring Poland overproduced 9,000 washing machines even though retailers clamored for scarce enamel pots. Queues even form for vegetables in rich Bulgarian farming country because bureaucrats have not received orders to disburse their produce...
...another area of U.S. foreign policy, President Johnson marked the 15th anniversary of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization by telling more than 100 guests at an East Room ceremony that the alliance was "a tested and recognized foundation stone of America's foreign policy." There was an implied slap at Charles de Gaulle's disruptive tactics in Johnson's statement that "we, for our part, will never turn back to separated insecurity." But the President generously added that the U.S. welcomes "the new strength of our transatlantic allies" and sees "no contradiction between national self-respect...