Word: slaps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Says Straus: "The reasons are mixed-psychological, sociological, situational." The head of the household, for example, may feel under particular stress because he has been out of work too long. Violence may also be an echo of the past. Explains Straus: "When Mommy gives her two-year-old a slap for putting something dirty in his mouth, he is learning from infancy that those who love you hit you." Another trigger may be war or inflation. Says Gelles gloomily: "If heating goes up to a buck a gallon and we have a real recession, it's going...
There was no undoing the confusion, however. Oregon Governor Victor Atiyeh complained that Carter's decision to help California was a "slap in the face" to other Governors who have been urging less driving in order to conserve gasoline. Illinois Governor James Thompson, for example, requested motorists to drive no faster than 50 m.p.h. New York Governor Hugh Carey asked motorists to cut their driving this month by 100 miles, which would enable them to save seven gallons of gasoline each. The New England Council, a Boston-based booster group, has proposed that everyone abstain from driving...
...have agreed to follow. To judge by the angry reaction of several of South Africa's white labor leaders, the Wiehahn proposals must seem fairly far reaching. Wessel Bornman, chief secretary of the all-white 38,000-member Iron, Steel and Allied Industries Union, denounced them as "a slap in the face of every white worker in the country and the biggest embarrassment to white unions in the history of South Africa...
Egyptian and Israeli officials welcomed the appointment. State Department sources insisted that it was not a slap at Alfred L. Atherton Jr., the career diplomat who preceded him in this job and who will be named Ambassador to Cairo. As one former aide put it, Strauss can "take two guys that are in total disagreement with each other into a room and walk out later with neither of the two satisfied but both having stepped a lot closer together." One Texas-size question: Will the cajoling style that served Strauss so well in smoke-filled rooms at Democratic conventions have...
...ordered to "keep Manhattan from looking like The Day the Earth Blew Up." Equally unsatisfactory was the typeface in a full-page Sunday New York Times ad for the film: a new mock-up awaited his inspection. The most annoying problem was the Motion Picture Association's decision to slap Manhattan with an R rating because of a few four-letter words. Allen was not pleased: "People say that the industry has a ratings board to keep the Government from invoking censorshipoesn't work, I have no trouble slamming...