Word: slapping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...forget that they are the conquerors, had cleared a 60-mile stretch of road of all traffic; even an ambulance and a funeral waited while Ike passed. In the crowd at Coblenz a German youth jostled a French cavalry colonel. The officer pushed the youth, threatened to slap his face, then turned to hear Ike make an address on the importance of allied officers' befriending the Germans...
...full intentions of carrying it to the doorstop of Red China, thus risking the danger of precipitating a world war in Asia, there has been much unrest and antagonism among our allies, particularly among the peoples of Western Europe. They felt, and perhaps rightly so, that it was a slap in their face for us to pour so many men and materials into such an insignificant place of no particular strategic value, while they were so badly needed for the defense of Western Europe against the iminent threat of Red invasion. If merely to preserve Allied unity, MacArthur's removal...
...bureau. Then he went out the door of the entry, into the tentative brightness of the sun, and across the quad to the mailbox. He stood for a minute reading the little card with its list of collection times, then he dropped the letter in and heard the hollow slap as it hit the bottom...
...attack on the Chinese mainland, was made in the Mas Arthur manner--without consulting either the U.N. or our own State Department. There is a small chance that the general may succeed where U.N. negotiators have failed, but his self-appointed role as policy maker is a slap in the face...
...first period the two teams played even hockey, with he Crimson taking 17 futile shots at Eli goalie Paul Cruikshank, who was spectacular in the nets all night. Yale only shot 11 times, but scored twice, on a screoned slap shot, and a pretty passout from just behind the Crimson net. The Bulldogs added two more in the second frame, one on a rink-length solo by Hal Howe, while Harvard took only four shots at the Yale goal...