Word: slapping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sees it, the soft green leaf may well be a nettle in disguise, and danger lurks on all sides. It is hard to trust people-"If they slap me on the back, maybe the next time they slap me they'll have a knife." On the other hand, so few people are really grateful to him: "It's not that I need credit. But somewhere along the line the dog should be patted on the head." If some neighborhood toughs honk their horns outside his house to annoy him, he speaks of being "hounded by degenerates...
LOUIS WOLFSON got out from under SEC charges of manipulating American Motors Co. stock by signing consent decree pledging not to perpetrate "fraud or deceit" on future buyers of A.M.C. shares. SEC action was light wrist slap for Wolfson, who made about $1.7 million in A.M.C. stock dealings, now avoids a public airing of his deals. But in future attempts to move in on corporations, Raider Wolfson probably will have to show on his proxy that he was once restrained by SEC for fraud...
...doings of Bernie Goldfine. It always pleases men like myself-whose income is slightly less than Bernie's 90-proof expenditures of last year-when such shaggy dogs are at least brought up for a lecture or two. Too bad Judge Wyzanski can't slap him in the jug with as much ease as my C.O. might be able to under the Uniform Code of Military Justice...
...Premeditated Slap. These expressions of horror were genuine; yet as a matter of political practice-particularly in the Communist world-leaders of unsuccessful revolutions could expect to end up on the gallows or before the firing squad. Nagy and Maleter might have been quietly executed within a few weeks or months of their seizure, as hundreds of lesser known Hungarian rebels were. But the Russians waited for 18 months and then brutally proclaimed their deed, giving the executions the deliberate quality of a slap in the face to the non-Communist world and of a mighty fist thrust...
...Rhythm Section. To feel Gulbenkian's anger, an acquaintance once said, was "to know the electric chair without death." The danger signal was an open-palmed slap, slap, slap on the bald dome, often followed by the saliva-flecked roar, "You are a broken reed I" If Gulbenkian was something of a solid gold Scrooge, he also had Scroogian fears. According to Young, the sordid 1920 murder of a Manhattan pawnbroker named Gulbenkian, no kin, scared him out of ever visiting the U.S. He reputedly kept a ton and a half of gold in his London safes, presumably against...