Word: slapping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...night dressmakers were chiseling on union contracts. They farmed work out to nonunion shops in violation of their contract, paid subcontract wages, welshed on union benefit payments, kept several sets of books. To fight back. Dubinsky demanded that union and management stiffen their policing of contract abuses, slap automatic fines on chiselers. Management said that the present loose policing methods are good enough. Furthermore, the union was not always an aggressive policeman. When the I.L.G.W.U. nabbed a chiseler, it sometimes let him off easy for fear that he would fold. On the policing dispute, the contract talks collapsed...
Time was when Russia's light-fingered lady discus thrower, Nina Ponomaryeva, could lift a couple of hats from a London department store (TIME, Sept. 10, 1956) and rate hardly a slap on the wrist from her commissar chaperons. Nina was needed for the Olympics. But the party line has changed. Last week Czechoslovakia's table-tennis champion, Ivan Andreadis, was "temporarily disqualified" from the national team for "unsporting behavior." His bourgeois crime: Ivan "forgot" to report a large hunk of his earnings...
...first six minutes of play. Cleary opened the scoring for the varsity when he took a pass from Guttu and scored on an open net. (Pitts was out of the cage, scurrying after a rebound.) Fischer made it 2-0 when he tipped in one of Owen's slap shots from the blue line at 15:30 of the opening period...
...dismissed the case last week: "It's unfortunate that a member of the teaching profession is subjected to this prosecution. This young lady should have some satisfaction in knowing her position in this matter has been approved in the community." Nonetheless. Roscoe's parents decided to slap Teacher Graner with a $2,500 suit to recover damages for Roscoe's bruised bottom...
...mismanagement of funds last year that forced procurement cutbacks and threatened to wreck the nation's airframe industry. It was a civilian decision that left the Strategic Air Command with a majority of its force grounded for lack of gasoline last summer. It was a civilian decision to slap overtime restrictions on ballistic missile programs. And it was civilian indecision that left both the Army and the Air Force spending hundreds of millions for rival intermediate-range missiles...