Word: slapping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...goes-when it goes. But all too often under Mervyn Le Roy's dull-as-drill direction, the gallus humor does not snap, the slapstick does not slap. And pretty soon the moviegoer begins to wonder why he ever got into this man's Air Force...
...Josephine's château at Malmaison, Napoleon (a very bad shot) delighted in shooting at the Empress' swans to torment her. When in good spirits, he would slap Josephine on the shoulders while she begged, "Do stop it, do stop it, Bonaparte." Josephine's maid, Mlle. Avrillon, recalled, "We could estimate the degree of his good humor by how much he hurt us. One day when he was obviously better pleased than usual, he pinched my cheek so hard I could not repress a scream...
Early nuclear reactors were easy to slap down. If one of them made what physicists euphemistically call an "excursion" -i.e., started to react too fast -it could be slowed down by pushing into it a simple rod of neutron-absorbing material. Control rods are still used, but the operators of big modern reactors dare not depend on them alone. Under some conditions, the fierce nuclear fire in the reactor's core can make a disastrous excursion in a fraction of a second...
...legal grounds and pointed out that it applied only to diplomats appointed before the tax was imposed. Prince Pacelli and Count Pecci kept silent. But, crying "anticlericalists!" the Vatican's L'Osservatore Romano opened a running debate with critics of the tax exemptions, declared that the implied slap at the Pope might be punishable under Italian...
...discussion before a caucus of Senate Republicans one day last week promised to freeze farm props for another year at the surplus-building levels that cost the U.S. $3.25 billion last fiscal year. Already passed by both branches of Congress (TIME, March 31), it was a deliberate slap in the face for Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson, who wants permission to cut farm subsidies and make a start toward whittling down the scandalous farm-surplus problem. The argument essentially was between principle and politics. It took the Republican caucus exactly 80 minutes to stand foursquare with politics, to vote...