Word: slapping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Reilly's have accepted the art of Scollay Square in a proper spirit of clean fun. And Boston has been justly proud, in more tolerant times, to be known as the home of this nation's first legitimate theatre. In fact, the cavalier action of the police is a slap in the face of hospitality that reaches back to the stoning of British troops...
...gown which, as she rose to leave after lunch, fell off her shoulders altogether. When the others wore the prescribed one-piece bathing suits, Miss Egypt appeared in a Bikini that must have been assembled under a microscope. "These other girls," she explained to the press, with a slap at her hips, "have nothing here...
...slap the Mexican press when you say that it was too close to the game of Aleman and his cronies to chronicle much of it. Just what do you mean? That it was in jeopardy and therefore scared ? Shucks! Like yourself, the Mexican press isn't scared of anything this side of the grave . . . Probably the lack of the chronicles you miss is due simply to the fact that there was nothing of the sort to chronicle . . .Who was the editor who, not with the traditional blue pencil of his kind but with the rewrite man's typewriter...
...office attraction for years. His crew is pictured as a pack of irresponsible children who would not last ten minutes in the wilderness without Wayne's paternal guidance: one of them does not follow Wayne's orders, and as a result freezes to death; Wayne has to slap another out of hysteria, cajole a third into courage. The high-strung pilots of the rescue planes include such familiar character actors as Andy Devine and Allyn Joslyn...
...gimmicks or old variations on the Soviet Stakhanovite system: P. Bykov's "rapid-lathe-operators' movement," J. Savitch's "rapid-grinders' movement," P. Duvanov's "movement for speeded-up baking of tiles," the "method of three" for cooperative laying of bricks-one man to slap on mortar, one to pass the brick, one to set the brick. The "work norm" became the laborer's master: if bricks laid or valves ground fell below inexorably increasing quotas set by the government, his wages fell...