Word: slaps
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...President of the U.S. personally untangled some of the reins of that prematurely grey mare, the U.S. space program, last week. In doing so, he created a wonder that the thing had ever moved at all. And he notably missed a chance to give it a sharp slap on the rump and get it headed somewhere...
...only organization in Britain that might be expected to slap a fine on Queen Elizabeth II did just that. The autocratic Jockey Club notified defaulting Member Elizabeth that she would have to pay up $140 for failing to notify the club at least three days before the running of the Champion Stakes at Newmarket that her colt, Above Suspicion, would not be in the race...
...bring out Khrushchev's faults and choose to minimize or ignore the possibility of his sincerity. I am proud, and not afraid, to admire Mr. Khrushchev for what may well be genuine overtures in the direction of peace. I shall trust him. I shall not condemn him and slap him when he puts forth his hand in friendship...
...mess and in political disarray, President Sukarno of Indonesia surrendered to army pressure by reviving the dictatorial 1945 constitution and appointing to his powerful new "inner" Cabinet not a single Communist Party member (TIME, July 20). Last week the Communists, who still claim 1,500,000 members, got another slap. On the very day that their newspaper Harian Rakjat (People's Daily) announced the convening of their big sixth national congress next week, Army Chief of Staff Abdul Haris Nasution ordered that the congress be "postponed indefinitely." It would, he said, only "sharpen political tensions...
...London's Colonial Office. The report flatly called Nyasaland a "police state," and its findings may jeopardize the merger of black Nyasaland with the black and white Rhodesias into a Central African Federation, which is plumping for self-government in 1960. The findings were one more direct slap at Prime Minister Harold Macmillan's harried Colonial Office...