Word: slapping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Brazilian editors were slap-happy with newfound freedom. Newspapers, with the exception of Brazil-Portugal*, sharply rapped the dictatorial Vargas regime for its truck with fascism, its curtailment of the vote and free speech. They speculated wildly about the still unscheduled elections. Names of hitherto unmentionable oppositionists, like ex-Foreign Minister Oswaldo Aranha and deposed Air Chief Eduardo Gomes, were headlined. Brazilians bought early editions by the handful, read them goggle-eyed. Gasped one: "I can't stand it! There's too much oxygen!" Said Diario Carioca: "The youngest of us never even knew of such freedom except...
...vote first, pass it, and then vote on Henry Wallace's qualifications. Finally, he pulled out his ace argument. At this very moment, said he, Franklin Roosevelt was "on the verge of" a historic international conference.* At such a time, he argued, the Senate must not slap down Mr. Roosevelt at home. Wyoming's dapper little Joseph O'Mahoney added his plea: "It is time for us to think what this is going to mean overseas...
...Chicago, white-haired U.S. District Judge Philip Leo Sullivan turned from his lawbooks to his dictionaries, solemnly pondered the meaning of two words;-"production" and "distribution." Then, reluctantly, he handed the U.S. Government's labor policy a resounding judicial slap. President Roosevelt, he decided last week, had no power to seize the plants and facilities of Sewell Avery's Montgomery Ward & Co. (TIME...
...dictator did not think that political parties were necessary ingredients. Snorted La Nación, Buenos Aires' ponderous liberal daily: "Democracy without parties is inconceivable." Into the flashing Morinigo teeth it tossed Lord Bryce's well-known definition.* The blast was obviously intended as an indirect slap at Argentina's own intolerant military regime...
...step off into peace on the wrong foot if it throws off every control over wages, prices, etc. as soon as "a moment arrives when it is not pressingly needed." Instead, said he, controls should be lifted on a conditional and piecemeal basis and should be kept ready to slap on again if needed...