Word: slapping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...itself submitted an item for inclusion in the Assembly's agenda called "The Question of Formosa," announced that it would invite the General Assembly to consider and settle "the future of Formosa" and of its nearly 8,000,000 inhabitants. The move was an unmistakable slap at the Nationalists (see box), gave aid & comfort to the Chinese Reds in their effort to get into...
...after-section are eight inviting bunks. But at high altitude nobody is allowed to "sack out." Reason: an accidental pressure failure would fill the cabin with a frigid blue haze, and the loss of oxygen would kill a man in 30 seconds if he didn't slap on his oxygen mask. A sleeper would be a dead duck. A more earthy problem: the toilet mechanism won't work at high altitude. The most practical makeshift is a bucket, and by unwritten law, the first man who needs it on the flight cleans it after landing. This makes...
...broad orders-one to limit the building-up of inventories, the other a general priority edict directing manufacturers to fill military orders ahead of others. But few thought that such voluntary controls would work as the arms program picked up speed. And then, when every Cabinet member began to slap on his own pet controls, the U.S. might indeed find itself in an "impossible mess...
...explained why he wanted to leave. When he discovered that he had been harboring a fledgling Protestant pastor, the proprietor was horror-struck. "I am a ruined man!" he groaned.* When word got around, the president of the Parliament thundered: "Where is this man? I want to slap his face. Shame on you for having sheltered...
...rubber growers got the point. In two consecutive days last week, rubber futures dropped the full legal limit of 2? a Ib. on the New York Commodity Exchange. Indonesian growers scurried to unload, spurred on by the added news that their government plans to slap a stiff 5?-a-lb. tax on rubber exports after July i. At week's end, New York rubber futures had leveled off at 28.9?. With this year's natural rubber production now estimated at 140,000 tons in excess of world consumption, most traders thought that even lower prices were ahead...