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...started for a minute, swallowing the grin all at once--no easy feat. Just then Harvard's Mark Fusco ripped a vicious slap shot from the point by a bewildered Demetroulakas. Home 3, visitors 0. Mumbling something about finding some popcorn to go with his pride, he pardoned and excused himself all the way to the aisle, disappearing into the crowd...

Author: By Michael Bass, | Title: One to Remember | 2/1/1982 | See Source »

...such, the Corporation decision represents a slap in the face to the students who battled so long to get even this small concession. The men who run the University reason, and probably correctly, that not many students here currently will care, certainly not care enough to do anything...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Betrayal on South Africa | 1/27/1982 | See Source »

...fact that the plane clipped it at a moment of high traffic, one routine thus intersecting another and disrupting both. Then, too, there was the location of the event. Washington, the city of form and regulations, turned chaotic, deregulated, by a blast of real winter and a single slap of metal on metal. The jets from Washington National Airport that normally swoop around the presidential monuments like famished gulls are, for the moment, emblemized by the one that fell; so there is that detail. And there was the aesthetic clash as well-blue-and-green Air Florida, the name...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: The Man in the Water | 1/25/1982 | See Source »

Apparently the jury did not find either side's case convincing and compromised with a slap-on-the-wrist verdict...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wrist Slap | 12/14/1981 | See Source »

...electorate shied from proposals that would have added to their tax burden. They frequently turned back measures that would have handed more power to politicians. West Virginians, for example, refused a $750 million bond issue backed by Democratic Governor Jay Rockefeller for state highway improvement, thus delivering a slap to Rockefeller's well-known presidential aspirations. In Kentucky, voters rejected a constitutional amendment that would have abolished the state's one-term limit on state officeholders, including the governorship. Democratic Governor John Y. Brown, who has presidential hopes of his own, considered the vote a personal rebuke. Said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Not Much of a Pattern Either | 11/16/1981 | See Source »

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