Word: slapped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Whore disappointed, but realize a few days later it is still unfolding as you think about it. It's always undercutting itself, being generally obstreperous, mocking any intention to take it seriously. The last line is "I don't like to be watched while I'm vomiting"--a slap in the face to an audience that still half-expects a dance of death silhouetted across a mountain-top at the end of a talky black and white film. But if you see the film without preconceptions or a burning need to analyze, and stick it out to the bitter...
...slap? when? where...
First he flipped home a backhand shot then five minutes later made it 3-1 on a long slap shot...
...been denounced on the floor of the Oklahoma legislature, been called "bastard" by state officials and a "lying s.o.b." by a newspaper publisher. A fellow editor once threatened to "slap his teeth out," while another stormed that he was not fit to lick boots. To such aspersions "Frosty" Troy retorts: "I'm a zealot." Then he returns to making more enemies in his job as the publisher, editor and principal reporter of the Oklahoma Observer (circ. 4,164), a twice-monthly tabloid that hits wealthy and powerful Sooners like a dust storm. Says Ed Hardy, press secretary to Oklahoma...
...cartel, named Union de Paises Exportadores del Banano (Union of Banana Exporting Countries), was formed by Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama. It proposes to slap a $1 export tax on every 40-lb. box of bananas leaving Latin America, 50 times the present 20 tax paid by major exporters. In the U.S., which is the world's top banana in imports of the yellow fruit, the tax boost could raise retail prices from the present 16%0 per Ib. to as much as 190. The International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union...