Word: slappings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...decibels, and mugging like a young chimp playing Maurice Chevalier, Robert mows them down with Lucky Pierre (first in French, and then with an English translation). Then he plows them under with a number entitled Don't Put a Dent in My Heart (but "hit me, beat me, slap me around"). He also does a lavish imitation of that well-known grief machine, Johnnie...
Frank H. Finch '53, Chairman of the Kirkland Social Affairs Committee, called Grote's refusal to merge dances "in poor taste and a direct slap at the Interhouse Committee...
...information on a new headquarters building, though details of the building's vital "war room" were printed in the Communist papers. They had picked up the information from workmen. The blackout on news has also prevented SHAPE from counteracting propaganda from Moscow. When Malenkov recently took a backhanded slap at SHAPE by saying Russia's armed forces were no bigger than in 1939, NATO officials refused to comment to newsmen. Not until a month later, when the matter was no longer in the news, did Lord, Ismay say weakly: "I would say that [Malenkov's claim...
...Generally speaking, a President begins his stay in the White House with 'a good press.' Everybody likes to slap the winner on the back ... At this point, the President and his family will be so happy about being elected that they will have few objections to close coverage. This happy state of affairs will be subject to change about the time the inauguration bunting comes down . . . Most Presidents, if they stay in the White House long enough, become convinced that they are being persecuted by the press...
That the way to get at Commies is to slap...