Word: slappings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the smoke of accusation cleared last week, Justice Edgar Nathan Jr. gave Gloria fulltime control over the children, restricted Stoky to annual four-week visits with a fifty-fifty share of school holidays and weekends. But the judge did not let either parent go without administering a sharp slap. "It is a sad commentary," he wrote, "that an entire month of the court's time and energy has been devoted almost exclusively to the resolution of problems which mature, intelligent parents should be able to work out for themselves for the sake of their children...
...Clyde Ellis, director of the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association. To farm-state representatives of both parties the bill was alluring; Ellis for weeks had been bringing his regional managers into Washington to buttonhole Congressmen. As drafted by Benson-hating Senator Hubert Humphrey, moreover, S. 144 was a direct slap at the bedeviled Agriculture Secretary and, indirectly, at the President himself...
Council members seemed cautious about what one termed "the dangerous precedent of interference" which such a move would entail. One member even called it "a slap in the face of Mr. Burke." Dustin M. Burke '52 is the director of Student Employment...
...Leader Stewart Aitken-Cade, "to snatch weapons from the Communists and use them against them. If undemocratic methods are necessary, I will be the least democratic of all.'' The honorable members rapped their desks in well-bred applause, then began debating a drastic series of bills to slap down the blacks even harder. Among them: a "Preventive Detention Act" which for the next five years would give Rhodesian police the power to detain indefinitely suspected nationalists or anyone "likely to endanger the public safety." Under the act the police could issue detention orders without the approval...
...sight. To learn the quick draw with this blunderbuss took a lot of practice, and the man who could fire it accurately beyond 20 ft. was rare. Nevertheless, the best of the gunsharks-with the help of sawed barrels, tied triggers, shifted grips, lowered hammers and greased holsters-could slap leather and spill five shots, all in less than a second. (The modern record is claimed by a Denver butcher named Jim-no kin to Matt -Dillon: draw and shoot in twelve-hundredths of a second.) Most of them, besides, carried a "stingy gun" and were masters of the border...