Word: slappingly
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With perverse consistency, voters seem to slap Mondale down every time he appears to have the nomination within his grasp. Having derailed Mondale's "juggernaut" in New Hampshire, they briefly admired him as an aggressive underdog struggling back. But after Mondale regained the role of front runner, he began behaving like one again, calling for party unity and looking ahead to the contest against Ronald Reagan. To the voters, he was no longer "Fighting Fritz." Once again he was what one party insider calls "Mondale Inc.," the buttoned-up Establishment candidate who sells shares of himself to interest groups...
...felt a painful slap on the back as a rifle bullet severed his spine. Then he felt nothing...
...make the cop tougher, the SEC is asking Congress to stiffen the penalties for illegal insider trading. Those convicted in civil cases now receive wrist-slap sanctions that merely bar them from further misuse of information and make them relinquish their profits. A House-passed version of the SEC measure would impose fines of up to three times the gains made from illicit transactions...
...Blair's final stats spoke for themselves--a 91.0 save percentage and a 3.09 goals-against average--numbers earned working with a blue-line corps whose play was perhaps best exemplified by Captain Ken Code. A small, choppy player praised for the accuracy rather than the force of his slap-shots. Codes led the Crimson not with speeches, but by on ice example...
Though white-bearded elders preside symbolically over village ceremonies, says Peissel, who spent six months studying them, the Minaro are a matriarchal society. Most married women have more than one husband. The women dominate the men and slap them around in public. The principal deities are female, goddesses of fortune and fertility, who preside over lesser goddesses that reign over time, the hunt and the village...