Word: slapping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...majority was going to be less than he had hoped, and called out the army and air force to see that the election itself did not get out of hand. Afterwards Marshal Sarit let it be known that he was "the only good man left." He demanded, as a slap meant for Phao, a new government in which Cabinet ministers would not maintain private commercial connections...
...said that "... the verdict was a hard slap in the face of a nation generally trying to live up to its own constitutional guarantees." What Constitution? Only Communists, criminals and colored have any constitutional guarantees...
Although the U.S. so far has had a good polio year (TIME, Aug. 12), there were also complaints about the vaccination program. The U.S. Public Health Service last week got a slap on the wrist from the House Committee on Government Operations investigating the vaccine situation. Charged a committee report: PHS was guilty of "unimaginative leadership" and lack of effectiveness in last year's polio-vaccination program and paid too much for vaccine-possibly because the manufacturers had got together to fix prices, a matter now under grand-jury investigation...
...claimed that the debate had not been full or the tactics fair (the South argued redundantly but on the points at issue), or that the net bill did not mark some slight progress. But by the same token, no one could argue that the verdict was not a hard slap in the face of a nation generally trying to live up to its own constitutional guarantees. It was also a shrewd political blow to an Administration that put presidential prestige and power behind a strong bill and to the Republican leadership that had staked its political prestige on the outcome...
Batista's answer was to slap Cuba under martial law, suspend all civil guarantees, impose an iron censorship. He ordered his troops to force open Santiago's stores and drive its buses. And his police made mass nationwide arrests...