Word: slaps
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Back in the dark, drums were softly brushed. Nellie struck a big fat chord. Underneath the piano, her gilded sandal began to slap the floor. And with a pixyish glance up into the smoke-filled spotlight, Nellie was on her way. From behind a shiny gold tooth came a big voice with dust in it-singing Hurry On Down, a husky tune Nellie herself wrote. First, her piano accompanied her with knotty background chords while she sang; on a second chorus, she accompanied the piano (which she plays in a style reminiscent of the musician she most admires, Duke Ellington...
Another thing nobody relished was the idea of trying to slap controls, patterned on WPB and OPA, on some segments of the U.S. economy. Controls have a horrid sound in a free economy. Yet it became clear that the U.S. was going to have a painful time giving Europe long-haul help. Without controls, it might be impossible to extract adequate amounts of the things Europe needed most-e.g., grains and steel -from an economy in which these items were already none too plentiful...
...Santa Ana (Calif.) Air Base, he was the nearest thing to an Irving Berlin or George M. Cohan of World War II. Loesser ground out some 200 service songs, including a slap at 4-Fs, They're Either Too Young or Too Old, a parade tune called What Do You Do in the Infantry, and one for the WACs: First Class Private Mary Brown...
...talk it over, the Big Three found themselves no longer close allies. Siqueiros, a red-hot Communist, wanted to declare war on "sterile" elements in the Mexican as well as the Paris School. The "folklorism" in Mexican painting is sissy stuff, he indicated, and that was a direct slap at Rivera, who had become deeply interested in Indian dances and folk art. Rivera plugged a plan to turn Mexico City into a great capital of art. To Orozco this meant turning Mexico City into a tourist trap. The three rewrote Manifesto II more than 15 times before publishing it last...
...tang from Szechwan chimed in: "We must be strong, not weak. If someone offers us a friendly hand, we should clasp it warmly. But if someone slaps us, we should slap back twice...