Word: slapping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ubiquitous Slap...
Your story of the slap-on-the-bus [TIME, March 23] interested me very much...
Another woman got up and slapped her face. "That is for my boy who was killed at Pearl Harbor. And this"-another slap-"is for my boy in the Philippines." At the next stop, the woman who was slapped...
...taking sentries, advises Mr. Levy, the back is the best approach. If that is not possible, the guerrilla covers the sentry with his revolver, steps on his foot, unbuttons his tunic and jerks it down over his arms to lock them. "You may slap his ears with the revolver barrel, to intimidate him. . . . You should also drop his trousers to lock his feet...
...crisis as slavishly as any medieval chain gang. Thank your stars if your castigation doesn't produce the kind of sullen rancor which could one day destroy you. What this nation needs right now in these tax-ridden days is a pat on the back-not a slap on the mouth with the back of an ungrateful, irresponsible, alphabetical hand...