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Word: slaps (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Crimson was ahead for just 18 seconds of the game between Captain Dave Key's neat screen shot at 0:47 of the opening period and Jim Fitzgerald's slap-in at 1:05. Before the end of the period the competent BC team had a 4 to 1 lead, and it never let the margin be narrowed...

Author: By Charles W. Bailey, | Title: BC Tops Hockey Team, 9-4 | 12/16/1948 | See Source »

...Sunday Times's excited conclusion that Crusade in Europe is "a blow ... at British-American friendship" came a soft-gloved slap by Lord Ismay, who was Winston Churchill's chief of staff. In London's Daily Telegraph Lord Ismay wrote: "Those who were privileged to serve with Eisenhower or under him, will remember him for all time as a grand fighter, a great American, and a sincere, generous-hearted friend of Great Britain. On this there can be no argument...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OPINION: Slams Across the Sea | 12/6/1948 | See Source »

...Such action by the University would "imply that (dining hall managers) are not competent.... It would be a slap in the face...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Council Outlines Food Poll | 12/1/1948 | See Source »

...boats and ships aground. Unburdened of snow, the winds whipped along the border country and on east to the sea. In Buffalo, the gale tumbled a 75-ton coal crane from its tracks, sent it plunging 60 feet through a transformer building. At Painted Post, N.Y., in a final slap, the wind knocked over an iron statue of an Indian which had stood since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE WEATHER: Blue Norther | 11/29/1948 | See Source »

...great a lift out of the oblique slap your writer gave Pegler, who is execrated by most fair and decent people for his character assassinations ... It is refreshing to read again & again your words "... Westbrook Pegler (whose continued toleration is all the proof anyone should need that the U.S. press is free...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 15, 1948 | 11/15/1948 | See Source »

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