Word: slapping
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...landslide victory came as a slap in the face to certain sectors of Haitian society. The army was concerned, since Aristide had never made deals with the military in the tradition of most Haitian presidential candidates. The economic elite was worried because they had been telling each other for years that "that little priest" was a communist. The Roman Catholic Church was nervous because Aristide's relations with the Haitian hierarchy continued to be rocky...
Said Toomey, "it was a slap in the face to the seargents who had been there for many years...
...Anatoli," said M.S., "we've got to do something. I will lean on that scum" -- he meant General Generalov, Plekhanov's deputy, who was put in charge of the security forces and became our warden. "I will slap him with demands every day. And I'll keep the pressure...
Minutes later, Harvard struck again. The Crimson deftly moved the ball up field and worked it towards Fowler standing just inside the circle. She unloaded a slap shot to give Harvard a 2-0 lead. Things were not looking very good for Brown...
...still, none of these stellar performances can compare with that of President Bush. Like the old vaudevillian Ted Healy with his famous triple slap across the faces of the Three Stooges, the President achieved three objectives with one stroke: to evoke a nation's sympathy for a brave man's tears, to present this effusion of salt water in a religious setting, and to remind us of a Commander in Chief's brilliant military triumph in the gulf...