Word: slapping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Slap in the Face...
...Nominee Stevenson announced that the vice-presidential candidate would be chosen in a wide open convention, such Kefauver managers as Jiggs Donohue urged Estes to stay out. The whole thing was a phony, they argued. Stevenson had really chosen a running mate; the best Estes could get was another slap in the face-and he was running out of cheeks to turn. But Kefauver talked to Stevenson at Adlai's victory party and received personal assurances that the race was indeed open. He left the party, huddled with aides in a post-midnight session, talked it over with Nancy...
...Strike Clause. In Elizabeth, N.J., after she slapped a chef, was struck in return during a disagreement over an order of onions, Waitress Fay Martin won $5,200 damages in a ruling by a judge who called it "common knowledge" that "a woman's slap on the face of a grown man is not of such character as to require resistance...
...students who have studied abroad, decided to publish a few words of wisdom for the benefit of the 1,000 young Japanese who will spend next year in the U.S. Sample advice to the girls: "When an American man starts behaving wickedly to you, don't hesitate to slap him in the face. This works instantly in the Land of Ladies First." Advice to the men: "It's ladies first, of course, when you enter a car or a door or sit down. But on a stairway, be sure to walk ahead of the lady. This is because...
Friends In the Dark. Out of the fog came the purr of motors and the slap of oars. Lifeboats arrived from Stockholm, where Captain Gunnar Nordenson had sealed his crumpled bow, found his vessel seaworthy, and turned to rescue. Andrea Dona's radio crackled as other ships reported positions. Fifteen miles away Captain Joseph Boyd had pushed his little (7,000 tons) freighter, Cape Ann, for a 55-minute run to Andrea Dona's side. The military transport, Private William H. Thomas, was 20 miles away. The destroyer escort Edward H. Allen, cruising off the coast in gunnery...