Word: slappingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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AMERICAN WOMEN Slap-shot Cinderellas showed tons of heart in snaring the gold. And they didn't trash their rooms...
...14th of Ramadan Cafe alongside the square, young men in frayed suits and old men in shabby jellabas sip tea or puff on water pipes, while backgammon counters slap, slap in the background. An old mural shows a young Saddam smiling; next to it a photo mural depicts an older, grimmer leader. There is nothing to eat here at the cafe except some custard puddings and a pile of Turkish delight. Holes near the roof line are filled in with little cardboard squares. The windows are half covered in tattered plastic. The men say they are resigned to more bombs...
...afraid? Israel certainly is, but the others are of two minds. They see Saddam as brutal and menacing, but they don't think he's about to do anything terrible to them right now. They assume that if he gets nasty and tries to attack again, the U.S. will slap him down. But they are skittish about provoking a sleeping beast and fear he might retaliate. They don't trust Saddam's judgment under bombardment, assuming that he could use his terror weapons as a last resort. A Jordanian official says, "You don't poke a lion...
...bill, a blessing for retailers and a slap at the states, should be a cinch to pass with Clinton's endorsement, says TIME technology correspondent Declan McCullagh. Best of all for netizens, "it sets a precedent for regulation of the Internet," he says. "It's an indication that Washington is still willing to take a hands-off approach , rather than stifle the Internet through bureaucratic meddling...
...regardless of sex -- sweeping aside the millenia-old tradition of primogeniture, in which sons always get first claim on the crown. Princes Charles and William can breath easy, because this makes no change to the line of succession -- they're both firstborn anyway. What this does do, however, is slap a huge royal seal on efforts to modernise the monarchy in the wake of Diana's death...