Word: slappingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...supposedly) cooler do. The two Arkansas boys were just acting the way they have seen America treat women: If she doesn't do what you say, strike her down. Violence against women is frowned upon in this country, but it is not considered important enough for more than a slap on the wrist. Take Back the Night week here at Harvard should have supplied us with a good enough warning about what happens when this philosophy is applied...
...what will the next century be? The reams of guesses made in the next two years are destined to be digitally retrieved decades hence and read with a smirk. But let's take that risk, peer into the haze and slap a few labels on the postmillennial period...
...well into his 80s, raised his voice for the last time. Keep Jerusalem undivided, he said, but otherwise we must suppress our yearnings for the newly gained regions; we must relinquish them in return for peace. The October War of 1973 came as a nemesis, a harsh slap of reality, undoing the post-1967 Israeli arrogance and moral callousness. Ben-Gurion died a few weeks after that war, while a wounded, deflated Israel was mourning its heavy losses and entering a long period of soul searching...
...longtime and loyal baseball fan that I write you to express my anger at the recent caption above a photograph of Ted Williams and Wade Boggs. The caption read "Hit 'em where they ain't." This phrase is attributable to Pee Wee Reese, a slap-hitting shortstop for the Brooklyn Dodgers in the '40s and '50s, and has absolutely no relevance to Ted Williams...
...night was brought to a climax with the presentation of the Samoan slap dance. Scantily clad MIT engineering students with oiled up bodies slapped themselves in an impressive performance. Samoan slap dancing creates the syncopated rhythm of tap dancing but with the use of one's hands and body instead of one's feet and the floor. It also has the energy and power of stepping. When asked if it was painful to do, Eric Beven, one of the Samoan slap dancers, replied, "Well, I got some bruises. You get so energized doing it. It feels great when...