Word: slappingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...used to be really bad," Craven says. "Guys used to soak each other's clothes...one guy found his clothes in a huge tape ball and there's always the guy who will saw someone's stick in half so when he goes to take a slap shot the stick cracks in half...
...doomsday predictions he inspires, Chernomyrdin has both his rhetoric and behavior to thank. Since taking office in December 1992, he has dismissed the "improvisations" of free-enterprise thinkers like Yegor Gaidar as "poorly thought-out experiments," taken a verbal slap at "market romanticism" and disparaged privatization by comparing it to Stalin's forced collectivization, which killed more than 10 million peasants during the 1930s. As for the Prime Minister's policy initiatives, International Monetary Fund officials weighing whether to unlock $1.5 billion in aid to Russia are most disturbed by his willingness to pump increasingly worthless rubles into inefficient state...
Well, that's not true. We have much to write about love, but we wanted to be cynical and wry, and we're both slap-happily involved with people right...
Neither are sentences that telescope years into months. "That six months I served, that was a slap on the wrist," says Woodley, who turned himself around without going to prison. "If you get three years, you should do three years." At the same time, the jailers know that prisoners need incentives for good behavior. Florida's Singletary favors 75% sentences for those of the 53,000 prisoners in his system who "work off" days by doing construction work, cleaning parks and performing other outside tasks. It not only lessens tension within the prison but also addresses the problem of idleness...
...poem is vintage Tokio Rose: like a slap in the face--stinging-hot but strangely cool. Its power lies in the bowling ball idea. Not really an "image" because it's more tactile than visual, it is a simile so original, massive, and vivid that it forces you to touch what shocks you. The twin holes of the bowling ball suggest the dichotomy between good and evil, sex and love, shit and "shit." The reader senses bitterness and self-recrimination amidst unrepentant profanity...