Word: slapping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Backed up by Jonas Ingram, his ships and his planes, the Uruguayan Govern ment announced its refusal to recognize the Villarroel regime. This action was a stinging slap for Argentina's Colonels. The Bolivian regime of Gualberto Villarroel, recognized only by Argentina, was firmly in the hemispheric doghouse; the U.S. was trying to line up its Latin friends in a united front to resist any further aggressions by Argentina. Then, when the stage was set, U.S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull prepared to loose a long-advertised blast against the Argentine and Bolivian regimes...
This gratuitous slap disturbed many Americans and Britons. Yet Mr. Willkie need not have taken the slap too much to heart-it was completely in tune with Soviet Russia's recent reactions to any & all suggestions that Eastern Europe and Russian affairs in that area are subject to world discussion. On its face, this fact seemed to hoot at the Moscow and Teheran declarations that Russia, the U.S. and Britain share a common interest in Europe, along with the rest of the world...
...Seventh Air Force struck from runways somewhere in the Central Pacific; they may have used Tarawa's air strip. The bomb doses were small (15 to 40 tons in two of four Army raids). Resistance was light: 20 Zeros appeared over Mili atoll, tried (and failed) to slap the raiders with anti-bomber bombs dropped from above in the German manner. In smaller force, Navy patrol bombers snooped the islands. But the blow that really caught the Japs in the Marshalls with their kimonos off, was a pile-driving carrier raid...
...Private Down." But PM's honest editor John P. Lewis admitted that his mail was running almost 5-to-1 against the paper's high-blood-pressure cry for a court-martial. And from Mishawaka, Ind., Casketmaker Herman F. Kuhl, father of one of Patton's slapped soldiers, wrote his Congressman, forgiving the slap and promoting the slapper's pro motion. The prevailing Congressional opinon was that Patton, exactly like any other soldier, should stay where his superiors considered him most effective...
...still retain his royal ferocity? That is the problem the Church attempted; that is the miracle she achieved." In the same manner he explained the profound significance of the story of Fall of Man: "If you wanted to dissuade a man from drinking his tenth whisky, you would slap him on the back and say, 'Be a man.' No one who wished to dissuade a crocodile from eating his tenth explorer would slap it on the back and say, 'Be a crocodile.' For we have no notion of a perfect crocodile; no allegory of a whale...