Word: slaps
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...could not allow Messing to escape without at least a slap on the hand. As Richard B. Stewart, the Administration's prosecutor, said in his concluding remarks, if the CRR acquitted Messing, "it would be an open invitation to any group to sit in at any University building...
...proved harmful to Republican office seekers in much more direct ways. In recent weeks, both Spiro Agnew and Richard Kleindienst visited Mississippi to sing the praises of Democratic Senator James Eastland, while never mentioning Gil Carmichael, the Republican who is running against him. Stunned by such a direct slap in the party's face, Connecticut Senator Lowell Weicker drafted a letter supporting Carmichael that was signed by 12 G.O.P. Senate colleagues, including Jacob Javits, Mark Hatfield and Charles Percy...
...which the complainant may be awarded a bounty of as much as 50%. More important, the city is spending $800,000 to hire and equip a noise-abatement staff. Starting next week, twelve inspectors will prowl the city with sensitive decibel counters, ready to slap violators with $500 fines on the spot...
...industry has gone almost unnoticed. Government assistance to U.S. shipbuilders and ship operators, who run some of the world's least competitive businesses, rose from $290 million in fiscal 1969 to more than $500 million in the current fiscal year. Last week, while simultaneously trying to make Congress slap a strict limit on federal spending as a whole, President Nixon successfully pressed for a $175 million increase in this year's already record-setting subsidy for the maritime industries. The increase was passed for the maritime industries by the House; the Senate seemed sure to follow suit...
...generate to maintain a lively pace and thus enthusiastic interest, soon dissipates as one walks away from the play, appearing frenetic in retrospect. And the short developed one-liners which inevitably rise in frenzy to a punch line grow tiresome in their episodic pace, the constant up, down, bang, slap dash, stage clearing, re-engagement of one's attention once more...