Word: slapping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ahead the bulky, unmistakable shape of a battleship winks a bright orange light. Then the soft thudding slap comes over the water: that blinker was a 14-inch salvo. Cruisers, battlewagons and tin cans are standing in amazingly close to the shore, pounding away with all their guns. We knew the island was to catch some 12,000 rounds of projectiles, 5-inch or bigger. But that was just a statistic; now we see it. We hear the blast of the big guns and the ripping-silk sound of the heavy shells sailing to their targets. We see the warships...
...China's 80 million Communists. Then the P.P.C. appointed a five-man commission of its own to journey to Yenan, capital of Communist China, investigate Communist claims (TIME, Aug. 28). The choice of investigators (not one of the five men named was a Kuomintang member) was an unmistakable slap at the all-powerful Kuomintang. The P.P.C. also demanded...
...drums go bang, the cymbald clang, Cas is a father, he breaks one engagement and makes two, abducts his own child, and relaxes his Dr. Wassell expression to play nursemaid to his daughter in a cheap hotel room. As in all comedy everybody lives happily with a capital slap...
...Guerrero: "They let us fish, then stole our fish and sold it back. They burned all our books. They made us take off our hats and bow when they went by. At first they would take our girls away and if they would not go to bed they would slap them and then take a big stick and beat them. Then the Japs brought in their own women...
Taken from the book of the same name, the movie tells of a slightly slap-happy draftee who can never do the right thing. He salutes back sergeants and smiles benignly at majors and colonels. Hargrove! Clean those garbage cans! Hargrove, played by Robert Walker, falls into the company of an ace goldbrick, Keenan Wynn, whose shrewdness is exceeded only by his ability to make a sucker of Hargrove. As a result of the goldbrick's efforts, the hard luck private accidently acquires a sweetheart, is transferred to a soft job, and then rejoins his old company when he learns...