Word: slapping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...traverse the city but are thrown to and fro by the A.A. fire which is now thundering out, and spitting forth glowing streamers of tracer bullets. We put on our steel helmets and take as much cover as possible for showers of shrapnel fall, fragments of steel cutting slap through the slate roof and tearing off hunks of stone from the walls. The house seems to lift off its foundations as a nearby gun opens fire...
...Japan's already well-spanked bottom President Roosevelt gave one more mild slap. He upped the tariff 50% on canned crabmeat, of which the U.S. bought $3,269,000 worth from Japan last year...
...radical element in U.A.W. was to be let alone. Communists in North American Aviation Corp., who two months before had engineered a wildcat strike (TIME, June 16) and defied U.A.W. and C.I.O. leaders, and whom the Reuther group wanted to hang and quarter, were to be given a thoroughgoing slap on the wrist. The whole program was to be labeled "harmony...
This finding was a sharp slap at the Army's Quartermaster General Edmund B. Gregory and his corps. Sharper still was the committee's chief recommendation: that Army construction be taken entirely away from the Quartermasters, and that camp maintenance and construction be transferred to a new and separate organization of qualified specialists...
Four of the attackers did not return, but two of the four had hit their targets before they were brought down. Pilots' reports were uniformly certain: slap-bang in the middle . . . colossal explosion, followed by flames and smoke . . . enveloped in black smoke...