Word: slapping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bravo for your Feb. 19 slap at the back-scratching brass of the armed forces whose foremost ambitions seem to center on the accumulation of a colorful array of "fruit salad" for their dress uniforms...
...Home Tomorrow supplies all this, as well as other ingredients essential to popular historical fiction. Hero Andres Vaeringer is a handsome, upstanding fellow with a vast curiosity about the world. Born & bred in Norway, he quarrels with his crusty stepfather and flees to England-just in time to run slap into Robin Hood and his merry men and get himself captured by that fine old favorite, the Sheriff of Nottingham. Saved from the scaffold by a pious knight, Andres gets shipped off to the Holy Land, where the air is so thick with plots and subterfuge...
...Other blasts of recent memory: the famous angry letter to Music Critic Paul Hume for his review of daughter Margaret's singing; his slap at the Marine Corps ("they have a propaganda machine that is almost equal to Stalin's"); his crack at the mineworkers' John L. Lewis ("for your information, I wouldn't appoint John L. Lewis dogcatcher...
...show them no mercy." His eviction tactics worked. By week's end, all but a corporal's guard of the women and their flashily dressed chulos (pimps) had pulled out of the Barrio Coloón. In its deserted streets the ring of hammers and the slap of paintbrushes replaced the shouts of merrymakers and the tinkling of glasses; property owners were following orders to clean up for new, respectable renters...
...notify him before making any new price boosts. If DiSalle did not turn down the boost in 30 days, then it could go through. DiSalle still had no way to get around the law banning controls on most food prices as long as they were below parity. He could slap ceilings on processors and retailers. But under the law, if processors and retailers had to pay more for farm products selling below parity, they would still be free to raise their prices. (Even Harry Truman, who said last week that across-the-board controls were in the cards, finally admitted...