Word: slaps
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...might as well slap a grocery-store trading stamp on my Christmas greeting-card envelope as disgrace it with that utterly tasteless, uninspired label offered...
...justice is for barter and sale to the highest bidder. No one thinks about principle any more. They are ready to sell justice!" Then he proceeded to astonish his colleagues with direct, personal attacks on the leaders of his own party in the House, wound up with a withering slap at Speaker John McCormack. "I have sat under ten Speakers," roared Cannon. "I have never seen such biased and inept leadership...
...marriage lasted only 14 months. Recalls Bersbach, now a Chicago printing executive: "You know how these divorces are. Somebody testified that they saw me slap her twice. Actually, I've never slapped a woman in my life. She was a darn attractive girl, very vivacious, but she liked to bounce around.'' The divorce was granted on June...
Mecham demanded that the U.S. withdraw immediately from the United Nations, raked the Supreme Court with the accusation that in its school prayer decision it had "leaned over backward to slap God in the face." Said Mecham of the Kennedy Administration: "I can't believe our leaders are traitors, as some have charged, but they certainly must be uninformed when the President refers to the nation's businessmen as s.o.b.s." Like Shadegg, Mecham circulated photos of himself with Goldwater...
Back in Moscow, Khrushchev obviously enjoyed what he had wrought. In a gratuitous slap in the face for the U.S. and President Kennedy, he announced that "during the stay in the U.S.S.R. of Ernesto Guevara Serna [better known as Che] . . . the government of the Cuban republic addressed the Soviet government with a request for help by delivering armaments and sending technical specialists for training Cuban servicemen. Agreement was reached. As long as aggressive imperialist quarters continue threatening Cuba, the Cuban republic has every justification for taking measures to ensure its security . . . while all Cuba's true friends have every...