Word: slapped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...DAMNING IMPLICATIONS of this ITT-CIA conspiracy and other "dirty tricks" of the multinational have claimed some casualties in the intervening years. First came two plea-bargains, one of which featured all the niceties of a slap on the wrist. In November 1976, a former ITT public relations director for Latin America named Harold V. Hendrix pleaded guilty to a one-count charge of failing to testify fully and accurately to the Senate multinationals subcommittee during the ITT hearings. In return for dropping possible perjury charges against Hendrix, the Justice Department required Hendrix to cooperate fully with its fledgling...
Like Nancy Dowd's script for Slap Shot, Casey's Shadow continually proves that men do not have a monopoly on first-rate sports reportage. Writer Carol Sobieski, working loosely from a story by John McPhee, takes a cynical attitude toward her characters' obsession with winning, and she leavens her familiar narrative with gritty bits of lore from the backwaters of quarter-horse racing. She accurately re-creates the arduous rituals of training, the sweaty romance of jockeying and the cracker-barrel humor of the eccentrics who build their entire lives around long shots...
...hooking call on the Crimson's Bobby McDonald gave the Terriers the game's first power play and first goal at 4:17. With only 15 seconds gone in the power play, B.U. defenseman Jack O'Callahan uncorked a slap shot from the left point that ricocheted off of Hynes shoulder into the upper right corner. Pointmate Dick Lamby and Dave Silk got the assists...
Gary Doak tallied the game-winning score with only 1:50 left in the contest, taking a cross-ice pass from Jean Ratelle and beating Rockies goalie Michelle Plasse with a low, hard slap shot from the right point...
Davenport said he feels the philosophical issue behind the decision was the department's feeling that graduate students lack direction. "They slap on regulations," he said, "when we really need advisors...