Word: slappingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...lined up all these pills and was playing with an empty glass. I was trying really hard not to fill it up with water." But when, later, she tried talking to UHS, she was told to wait eight days for an appointment. Erin said that was a slap in the face...
Last week's NATO raids were more than just a slap at the Serbs. They also represented a fundamental and dramatic shift in the way the U.S. has mixed military policy with foreign affairs. For the better part of the past decade, ever since U.S. troops stumbled in Somalia, American thinking has conformed to the so-called Powell doctrine, named after former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Colin Powell. His doctrine had two tenets: first, the "biggest s.o.b. on the block" rule, that America should enter fights with every bit of force available or not at all. Second...
...This bill is a slap in the face of every queer student on this campus," wrote Anna M. Baldwin '00 in a message to the council's group e-mail list. "I am out-raged at the contempt for the rights of gay students implicit in this bill...
...point, Chase recalls, Tony was supposed to be angry at his nephew-employee, and the scene called for the elder Soprano to give the younger a light slap. Gandolfini thought it would be truer to have Tony go for his throat. "That taught me a lot about my character," Chase reflects. "It helped keep me honest...
Joel Stein's piece in which he called the Adopt-a-Highway program the lamest charity he'd ever heard of [NOTEBOOK, March 1] was a slap in the face to those of us who care about the state of the environment. This program provides money and manpower to help clean littered stretches of highway. Maybe Stein enjoys seeing the rotting wrappers that blow across the endless roadways, but most of us do not. BRANDICE HARTSOCK Blacksburg...