Word: slapping
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...were a 12-year-old boy on a solo Save the Whale campaign, well, you'd slap your favorite marine mammal into a truck for a drive to the Pacific Ocean. And to keep him refreshed, you'd probably run him through an automatic car wash. And then, like an animal tamer who uses love instead of a whip, you'd get your adorable orca to leap over a high jetty so he could be reunited with his pod. You'd go that far for a friend. Where there's a whale, there...
...canals, where a stand of willows and pond-apple trees provides a bit of shade. When Duncan, a water- quality expert working for the local Indian tribe, cuts the engine of his airboat, he can hear bullfrogs croak from the water lilies and the tails of - Florida garfish slap the water with a noise like popcorn popping. A pair of white ibis watch warily as alligators -- half a dozen of them -- drift toward the boat, lured by a man-made gulping sound that Duncan calls an alligator distress call. When they realize they have been fooled by a human...
...Professor of Economics Hendrik S. Houthakker said the vote could be seen as a "slap in the face" for Powell and said it "opens up a new area of discrimination, namely against those students who take part in ROTC." He also tried, and failed, to table the report...
...when he had an open blister on his hand." Irresponsible, uneducated statements such as these fuel the flames of AIDSphobia which spread like wildfire and legitimate the tactics of lunatics like William F. Buckley and Jerry Falwell. This blatant disregard for the actual modes of HIV transmission is a slap in the face to those, like myself, who have devoted their lives to making sure people know the "facts" about HIV and AIDS...
...feel it is most unfortunate this motion comes at this time," said Lee Professor of Economics Hendrick S. Houthakker. "This motion might well be interpreted as a slap in the face for the invited Commencement speaker...