Word: slappers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Like most slaps in the face, this one promised to create difficulties for the slapper. It calculatedly opened the breach wider between Russia and Yugoslavia than it had been since the Cominform excommunication of Tito in 1948. It all but destroyed prospects for an early summit meeting. (Even De Gaulle, perhaps the most willing of all Western leaders to talk with Russia, declared that he now saw little chance of a summit meeting this year.) All these were consequences that calculating Nikita Khrushchev obviously foresaw when he passed the death sentence on Nagy and Maleter, and chose to proclaim...
...John Edward Poynder Grigg, second Baron Altrincham of Tormarton, as his assailant was led away, but throughout the length and breadth of the United Kingdom there were those, particularly among his peers, who felt Altrincham had got off a lot too easily. In Bow Street court next morning, the slapper proved to be a paid agent of a group of nostalgics who call themselves The League of Empire Loyalists. He was fined a quid ($2.80) for his violence, but the sentiment that prompted it-disgust at a young peer who had dared to call his Queen a prig in print...
...fully equipped for instantaneous audial (A) and visual (B) communication with information centers. Special face for Congressional hearings (C) and Boston face (D) may be interchanged and lowered by mechanism (E). Policy-making hand (F) and Back-slapper (G) are also interchangeable. (H) and (I) are necessary for hurried conferences. "(J) holds 'classified' information. White shoe (K) is a crowd-pleaser within the undergraduate set. Deep palm (L) is especially useful during alumni fund drives. Two necks allow the new president to wear two collars and two ties (M) in the interest of a liberal admissions policy...