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Word: slapping (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...attitude toward the Harvard Union could be generalized into one word, that word would probably be "indifference." The solid building on Quincy Street serves his meals on cartwheel trays, houses his dances, and corrects his Gen. Ed. papers; but between these events only the click of billiard balls, the slap of a pingpong paddle, and a kitchenbroom's swish break a sluggish silence in the building. He ignores its pictures of old athletes on the walls, hangs campaign posters from mounted buffalo heads, and ties bibs around John Harvard's bust in the dining room...

Author: By Stephen C. Clapp, | Title: The Union | 5/3/1957 | See Source »

...becoming more and more difficult to be both an "Eisenhower Republican" and a Jew. If the Administration continues to maintain its present policy of possible sanctions against Israel and just a slap on the wrist towards Nasser, Saud and the other decadent Arab leaders, it will have the unfortunate effect of driving us into the arms of the Democrats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 25, 1957 | 3/25/1957 | See Source »

...sidelines of the U.S. defense setup. Specifically, Nickerson felt that the Army's Jupiter, a 1,500-mile intermediate-range ballistic missile, was more promising than the Air Force's I.R.B.M. Thor, and ought to be adopted. In other words, he was bent on getting the Army slap-bang into the Air Force's business of long-range strategic attack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: The Nickerson Case | 3/18/1957 | See Source »

...Wolverines got their first goal at 14:30 when Ed Switzer scored on the rebound off Pitt's slap shot. Only fine play by Bailey kept Michigan to this slight margin...

Author: By James W. B. benkard, (SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON) | Title: Varsity Hockey Team Defeated By Strong Michigan Sextet, 6-1 | 3/16/1957 | See Source »

Harold Morgan and Butch Walls (whose vicious slap-shot has made him one of the team's top scorers) start on defense, backed up by Mel Hodder and Bob Crosby. John Page will guard the Crimson nets...

Author: By James W.B. Benkard, | Title: Sextet To Face Yale, Needs Strong Victory | 3/9/1957 | See Source »

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