Word: slapping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this implied slap at McCarthy, St. Clair said that "the Defense Department had the better method of exposing security risks." The Senators should limit their investigations, to those that are actual bases for law-making, he added...
...heads bowed in silence. "Thy will be done . . . Thy will be done . . ." prayed Chaplain Von Norman to himself. Two minutes later, while the burning plane banked, he stood at the open door and began sending the sky pilots off into the air, one by one, with a slap on the rear and an occasional shove...
...seven years, all the chiefs of the French provincial and overseas administration. He outlined the economic revolution which he is about to launch. Wednesday evening, U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles administered to the French Premier, for the first time since the end of the war, a diplomatic slap in the face...
...come to be associated with eggbeater boating. But when the motor was turned off and the other was tried out, there was a difference. From 500 ft. away, the motor could not be heard at all; newsmen riding in the boats could converse in normal tones, hear the slap-slap of the waves against the bow. Vibration was cut sharply...
...melons to the Japanese soldiers. Several hours later, U Nu met the same procession, limping home and disillusioned. "We expected the Japanese commander to be thankful," one of the marchers explained, "but all he did was to take his hand from his trousers pocket and give us a hard slap in the face." Thereupon, U Nu and the marchers, as Burmese often do in moments of desperation, spontaneously burst out laughing...