Word: spanking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ever in a hurry to get things done. While others fished at Reelfoot Lake, Tenn., he had two days of walking, loafing, taking a not-very-frequent drink, playing poker and sleeping late (until 8 o'clock one morning). He had his picture taken while giving a playful spank to moppet Mike Moffet. Back at his desk he swiftly cleaned up the accumulation of routine. One of his first decisions: to try to add Nashville, Tenn., and its James K. Polk sesquicentennial celebration on Nov. 6 to his North Carolina-Georgia trip...
...this election there is no gratitude in England." In seeming to praise Churchill, the Anglophobic News had a more obvious than devious design: to iterate its moth-eaten theory that Churchill tricked the U.S. into the war. The famed Manchester Guardian saw a chance to spank the brat...
...dither. Some were reluctant to sit in dangerous judgment on Argentina. Others welcomed the conference, now that Argentina had asked for it. Said one pro-U.S. diplomat: "We are divided. Some are cursing the Argentines' mothers, others their fathers." Said another: "This is a beautiful chance to spank the Argentines on their rear ends where they keep their brains.'' Said a third: "Now the party begins. We shall have bullfights...
Lapful. It was thus up to the President to: 1) spank one and pat the other; 2) take the job away from both; or 3) set up a wholly new agency on top of OWI, with a new name on top, and nobody fired. This alternative seemed most likely...
Watching from Washington and smelling a stunt, Maritime Commission admirals did not know whether to spank the upstarts or praise them. With characteristic deftness, the Kaisers had delivered the Joe Teal, the 75th Liberty ship from Oregon Shipbuilding Co.'s yard, on the eve of the anniversary of the first Liberty launchings, a day set aside by President Roosevelt for a "Salute to the Victory Fleet." The Kaisers swore nothing had been sacrificed in making their record. A stunt they had done, but not an impossible stunt with modern methods of shipbuilding in which the beginning is not really...