Word: slappingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rest of the game seemed to be a continual power play for the Huskies. Time after time after time the attackers whacked shots at Villiotte, and just as often the Harvard netminder gloved them or swatted them away, save one Northeastern one-timed slap shot...
...last season the Crimson came down on the other end of an upset, as Boston College downed Harvard in overtime, 2-1, when Tom Ashe's slap shot from the blue line eluded Harvard goalie Aaron Israel...
...forces general staff out of the Defense Ministry and place it directly under the President. This would make Yeltsin commander in chief of the armed forces and leave to the ministry basic but poorly handled tasks such as training and supplying them. Such a move could only be a slap at the military leadership's demonstrated incompetence in Chechnya and an indicator that Grachev was about to be eased out. But the confusion increased a few hours later when Yeltsin's press secretary said no decision had been made...
...Yeltsin made may have been the worst: his decision to teach the rebellious little region a lesson. After losing Eastern Europe and 14 former Soviet republics, Russia would bend no more. To revive the country's pride and show other restive nationalities what happens to secessionists, Yeltsin decided to slap down the Chechens. He thought it would be easy to whip the backward province of 1.2 million into line and earn himself a much needed boost in popularity. Instead he marched his army into a humiliating, bloody...
...initial government decision to send troops to Chechnya. "The country is in crisis," said one, reformer Boris Fyodorov, joining a unanimous call for a special commission to probe the war. Still, the Deputies rejected a limit on President BorisYeltsin's power to run the military offensive, and -- in a slap at widely criticized Defense Minister Pavel Grachev -- ordered the army's general staff to report directly to Yeltsin...