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Word: slapping (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Silence. The pamphlet hit the world like a slap in the face. Cried ECA's Paul Hoffman: "Deplorable isolationism! . . ." France's Robert Schuman said with Gallic politeness: "I am surprised." It was, he added, "a brutal decision...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Very, Very Sticky | 6/26/1950 | See Source »

Gregory Peek plays Ringo quietly and earnestly; his chaps do not slap and his spurs do not jingle. Nobody gallops in pursuit of anyone else, and there is a large mud puddle in the middle of the main town's main street. The supporting cast is large and lazy and authentic. "Gunfighter" is a western which deals in people--not just in firepower...

Author: By Paul W. Mandel, | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 6/20/1950 | See Source »

...Slap a 30% capital gains withholding tax on trading profits made on U.S. commodity exchanges by foreign speculators...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMODITIES: Grounds for Discipline? | 6/19/1950 | See Source »

Caged (Warner) uses the sob-and-slap technique to tell the story of a pregnant 19-year-old girl (Eleanor Parker) who is sentenced to state prison because of her part (innocent, of course) in a gas station holdup. Entering her cell block with the diffidence of a rabbit stepping into a jungle, she has trouble adjusting to the hysterics, hair-pulling and suicide that are rampant among her fellow inmates. Like other movie prisons, this one is run by a "good" warden (Agnes Moorehead), who is hamstrung by politicians, and a "bad" matron, who eats caramels and reads love...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jun. 19, 1950 | 6/19/1950 | See Source »

Bolt the Door. In the Sinclair version, Heroine Pamela Andrews is a prim, pretty, barefoot goat-girl, a devout Seventh Day Adventist who lives with her mother in a tarpaper shack in the California desert. One day in the 19205 a plush black limousine breaks down slap outside the Andrews home, and its owner, an idle-rich sponsor of radical causes named Margaret Harries, stops off long enough to whisk proletarian Pamela off to the vast Harries home as parlormaid. Here, Pam promptly runs into the path of Mrs. Harries' pampered, drunken, lecherous nephew, Charles. Like her 18th Century...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Parody in Pink | 5/8/1950 | See Source »

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