Word: slapping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week's end lights burned late in the old grey State Department building in Washington. If Cordell Hull & Co. were not talking, at least they were pondering -perhaps preparing to act. Unless the U. S. was willing to go all-out against Japan, it would be useless to slap an embargo on oil, because that would be an invitation to Japan to take the East Indies. But an agreement with Britain for a string of Far Eastern naval bases from New Zealand to Singapore was worth pondering, as were the chances of Japan's risking war to keep...
...jobholding in their trunks. Sam Rayburn said goodby, tears in his eyes. No one believed John Garner would ever come back.) In the closing moments Texas' Sam Rayburn had withdrawn Garner's name, Senator Tydings had withdrawn his own name in a statement that was like the slap of a barber's cold towel, and big Jim Farley asked to be permitted to make a statement "without interruption...
...response, once more Canadian armament was given a slap in the rump. After a four-hour meeting with the War Committee, Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King announced in Parliament that "sweeping measures" would be taken. A third and fourth division would be raised by enlistment; the first division, already abroad, would be reinforced: the second division sent abroad as soon as possible. To speed the lagging Empire Air-Training Plan, the Hon. Charles Gavan ("Chubby") Power, twice-wounded, once-decorated veteran of World War I, was appointed head of a new Ministry of National Defense for Air. Work...
...Something should be done about "innumerable households" that still scold, threaten, shout at, slap, beat their children...
...weeks he likes to have people around ("even when he waves bye-bye he may prefer to have them remain"); at one he repeats performances that get a laugh; at 18 months he strikes the air rather than an intruder ("when he becomes socially more mature he will slap the person"); at two he distinguishes between "mine" and "yours," pouts, dawdles; at three he "negotiates reciprocal trade agreements," obediently runs errands; at four he is bossy, tells little lies, "likes to go to the bathroom when others are there to satisfy new curiosities"; at five he is less quarrelsome, chatters...