Word: slapping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first half of the second stanza, the Cadet defense tightened and held off repeated rushes by Cleary and Guttu. Higgenbottom made it 3 to 1 when he tallied on a rebound from defenseman Dick McGlaughlin's slap shot and Balboni scored the first of his two goals two minutes later on a fine shot from the blue line. Cleary also scored on a rebound, this time from McVey, and the period ended with the Crimson well out in front by a 5 to 1 count
...These Thousand Hills there are fine evocations of what the country was like, the authentic sense of place that is Guthrie's trademark. Even the standard brushes with Indians and rustlers have a quality of this-is-how-it-was, and the speech rings as true as the slap of a silver dollar on a saloon...
...Hungary, but his words held bitter aptness: "We were proud of the soth century. Yet that first half of the century has brought with it such terrible stains on almost all social, political and state organs that we can truly regard that century as a great disaster, as a slap in the face to a proud...
...termite theory of art. Out there they figure they can survive by gnawing on their own backlog." As a matter of fact, about 10% of current big-studio production, according to one educated guess, are new versions of old successes. The fashion in these remakes is to slap on plenty of Technicolor, sign up a couple of famous players, hire a band to play good and loud-and call it all "A Great New Musical...
...Slap in the Face. From then on, Gigi worked his revenge. Nannarella's trucks met mysterious accidents, and the potatoes in her warehouse started going bad. A shrewd marketman knows well how to ruin his rivals' stock. Her resources dwindled, and one by one her subjects abandoned her. By spring she was facing bankruptcy. Nannarella sought out Gigi. "Give me back my subjects," she said, "and I'll let you have all my remaining potatoes." Gigi only laughed, so Nannarella slapped him hard across the face. One of Gigi's brawny henchmen seized...