Word: slappingly
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...East Room of the White House. "The sale is particularly important in light of the tragedy of yesterday," he said. Indeed a defeat, which would mark the first time that the Hill had blocked an arms deal, would tarnish Reagan's projection of authority abroad and represent a slap at the Saudis...
...Crimson today recommends a slap on the wrist for the doctors who went to Hussain's aid, and there is virtually no chance that the men will ever face a greater sanction. But it will take more than censure to convince the four doctors and their colleagues that the fraternity of medicine is not inviolate and that the general public will intercede when "medical ethics" fail...
Harvard's persistence around the goal soon paid off when Martin evened the score 30 minutes into the game with a slap shot off a short corner...
...slap of a clapper board indicates the start of a "take," and of this film. Few will note that the names on the slate are fictitious, not those of Reisz and his cinematographer Freddie Francis; but it is the first hint of the life-to-be outside the walls of the period story. The audience will learn soon and often enough: 14 times, the "present" film-within-the-film will give way to the "past" film-within-the-film-within-the-film. Inside the deepest box it is 1867, and Charles Smithson is again living out his perplexed obsession with...
...last summer, Tommy Sexton, 15, of Bowie, Md., and some neighbors were driving home after a day of fishing, when a car driven by David Watkins swerved into their lane and hit them. Sexton was killed. Watkins, who was drunk, suffered no injuries on the highway and a mere slap on the wrist in court. He received a two-year probationary sentence...