Word: slapping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...proposed restrictions seem as much a slap at Roosevelt as a forward-looking admonition. The two-term 22nd amendment should have purged the conservatives of their ire; the 23rd should not be a similar emotional...
...Deal strategy is the President's reliance on the free market, instead of controls, to check inflation. And this is admittedly a gamble. Prices and wages touch the most sensitive nerve of the body politic. If this laissez-faire approach come to grief, the Administration will have to slap controls on again or tell an angry swarm of voters...
When Budu Svanidze told his mother he wanted to be like his Uncle Sosso when he grew up, she slapped his little face. Uncle Sosso lived in the Caucasian Mountains and spent most of his time robbing and killing Russian soldiers and policemen. Since his home town of Didi-Lilo was a two-by-four hotbed of Georgian nationalism, this made Uncle Sosso rather popular with most townsfolk. But when Budu's mother remembered how Sosso had been sent to an Orthodox seminary to be trained for the church, and how he had subsequently turned so shamelessly irreligious...
...plump, blonde actress named Eva Duarte, then occupying the apartment next to that of Labor Minister Juan Peron, got into a hot argument with creamy-skinned Libertad Lamarque, then the country's top screen and radio actress. Libertad imperiously leaned across the table, gave Eva the last slap she was ever to receive in public, and stalked off with her own admirers. A moment later, according to the story, Tango Singer Hugo del Carril walked by to find Eva alone and in tears. He draped a friendly arm around her shoulder and said...
...bring along an elderly fellow in civilian attire and introduce him to the officers as 'You remember Sergeant So-and-So. He and I fought together at So-and-So.' Sometimes if you happen to mention the name of a ranker he'll slap his thigh and declare: T knew him before his mother's milk was dry on his lips...