Word: slapping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...scarf-she never knew where it had gone ... a gabbing, ambitious, mock-tough, pretentious young man; and moley, too." Or he can roll all the world's seaside picnics into an impressionistic memory of one boyhood frolic: "August Bank Holiday-a tune on an ice-cream cornet. A slap of sea and a tickle of sand ... A wince and whinny of bathers dancing into deceptive water. A tuck of dresses. A rolling of trousers ... A sunburn of girls and a lark of boys. A silent hullabaloo of balloons." Appearing near the first anniversary of Dylan Thomas' death, this...
...many a state highway official knows that ponderous old ICC often takes years to act on anything. About all the states can do is slap on more fines, even though the truckers pay little attention to them. Most of them count fines as simply another routine cost of doing business...
With sure grip on the nation's billfold, Congress is using its free hand to give the Foreign Operations Administration an unpleasant slap. Dependent on Congress both for money and its existence, FOA is scheduled to go out of business this coming June. In spite of the Congressional decision, however, the National Security Council needs the FOA to prepare the nation's foreign assistance program, and has asked the agency to make plans for the next two years...
...seven-page explanation of his committee's findings, including the censure recommendation (one of two) for McCarthy's having called New Jersey's Republican Senator Robert Hendrickson a "living miracle without brains or guts." When McCarthy heard the quote, he grinned, went over to slap Hendrickson on the back, and whispered: "Bob, you've got both brains and guts, and I'll put it in writing." But McCarthy would make no public apology...
Slush & Slime. All week long pro-McCarthy Senators, e.g., Illinois' Everett Dirksen and New Hampshire's Styles Bridges, worked in the back rooms, trying to write a compromise resolution which would slap Joe's wrist but stop short of censure. Helping them was California's Senator William Knowland, who seems to think that his majority-leadership post makes him a Fanny Fixit, obliged to rush to the aid of all Republicans, regardless of what those Republicans may stand...