Word: slappings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...American" has produced only headaches. Local police are often loath to arrest growers, especially when communities are dependent on pot income. Some even tip off planters to impending law-enforcement raids. In many states, the penalties meted out for growing grass often amount to little more than a wrist slap anyway. Even with stiffer sentencing, enforcement would remain difficult. Growers have become adept at hiding pot patches from airborne police. One farmer in Kentucky is growing plants on flatbeds that he can wheel into the barn at the first buzz of a light plane. Other growers protect their crops with...
...tentatively. Years of haranguing ("Keep your greasy fingers off the TV!") have made the screen taboo. But when the child sees that his finger causes the image to change, learns that his touch magically provokes new pictures, sequences, words and diagrams, his hand begins to jab, rub and slap the screen. Curiosity, once aroused, is satisfied by simply touching a picture of what one wants to understand. This process is re-enacted thousands of times every day at the U.S. Pavilion at Energy Expo '82 (a.k.a. the Knoxville, Tenn., World's Fair) as exuberant children and their more...
...carried out too faithfully by the forlom Princetonian, Napolitano, goes far beyond the cliched dangers of pre-professionalism. These folks achieve in college merely to clench a career. They also view the entier four-year experience with scorn--as a game played against a system which threatens to slap them with a bum grade and send their lives, families, future children and bank accounts down the tubes. These darlings of the New and More Vicious Darwinism rationalize their suggestions in a conclusion entitled "Now You Are Ready to fight"..."No grad school or employer expects you to know anything...
...terrible timing," groaned one of Margaret Thatcher's advisers. Just as the beleaguered Prime Minister was considering when to launch a counterinvasion of the Falklands, her partners in the European Community last week gave Britain first a diplomatic slap and then subjected it to a humiliation that shook the ten-nation Community to its institutional roots. The crux of the problem, as French President François Mitterrand put it, was not just "what role Great Britain intends to play" in the Community, but "the question of the presence or the nature of the presence of Great Britain...
...wish they wouldn't have accepted her at all," said one incensed parent of his commuter-daughter. "I think it's a slap in the face." A long-time Harvard administrator argued that foreing a specific group to live at home was comparable to exiling them to a leper colony--not the kind of move likely to improve community relations...