Word: slapper
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...expedition to Mississippi in 1902, refused to shoot a bear cub. Washington Star Cartoonist Clifford Berryman instantly made the cub a symbol for Roosevelt, and the country went for the notion lock, stock, and bear jokes. (If T.R. is President when he is fully dressed, went one knee-slapper, what is he with his clothes off? Answer: Teddy bare...
...exactly a knee slapper and almost seemed to be unintentional. But given the context-the solemnity of the East Room of the White House and Richard Nixon's first press conference as President-the throwaway line was bound to elicit laughter. One of the first things he had done to cut down on crime in the capital, deadpanned the President, was to turn on the White House lights that Lyndon Johnson had turned off five years...
Harvard's lead, lasted until Paul Hurley unleashed the East's best shot eight minutes later. The Eagles were killing a penalty charged against their goalie when Hurley wound up his slapper outside the blue line. The screaming puck bounced off bill Fitzsimmon's pads into the goal...
...elevator, they have also developed a conditioned reflex. They instinctively slap any metal object-typewriter, watercooler, doorknob-with the flat of the hand before using. Otherwise, little blue sparks fly from fingertips and a nasty, if harmless, jolt runs up the arm. In fact, even the most cautious palm-slapper sometimes yields a small tingle...
Opening the scoring two minutes after the first period began, Army center Mike Thompson slammed a 25-foot slapper past Harvard goalie Godfrey Wood. The rest of the first period saw only further examples of Grey superiority on their home ground...