Word: slapping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...town halls to discuss town business. Their fond hope: that a good percentage of the small-town folks will step over to the polling booths and vote for Taft. They were happy, too, when General Douglas MacArthur withdrew from the primary, with a comment which sounded like a slap at Ike and a plug for Taft. Said the general: "The immediate demand upon the citizens lies in the selection of a national leadership of demonstrated ability in the science of civil government...
...money, wagered against them by a group of friends, they must continue to slap each other in the face every ten seconds until 10 a.m. today. The orgy began at that time on Tuesday morning. Since then, the competitors have subsisted on No-Dos, Absorbine Jr. applied by spectators, and whatever food they could manage to cram down...
...Wild Blue Yonder" centers on the crew of a B-29 during the last war. Led by an oestrum-happy pilot (Wendel Corey) and a slap-happy sergeant (Phil Harris), these fellows really have themselves a ball. Why, on their very first flight they take the plane up to high altitude, against orders, and the resulting pressure blows one of the gunners out of the plane like a bullet...
...McCarran did not stop there. Passports, he made clear, should have been denied all 18. "While our boys fight Communism in Korea," he roared, "our State Department lets the enemy's civilian agents move at will between here and Moscow." This was a direct slap at a respected State Department functionary named Mrs. Ruth B. Shipley. Washington politicos reacted with the same horrified fascination they might have felt if the Senator had kicked a baby-or criticized J. Edgar Hoover...
...secret "stimulator." The maker of Krebiozen was an emigrè Yugoslav researcher named Stevan Durovic, who worked with the financial backing of his rich brother Marko. The Durovics were in the U.S. on visitors' visas which were about to expire. They were threatening to finish their work abroad, slap Krebiozen on the market...