Word: spanks
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Last week, Governor Floyd Bjerstjerne Olson of Minnesota, his patience exhausted, turned up Minneapolis' skirts and spanked her because she stubbornly refused to settle her three-week-old truck drivers' strike. His authority to spank grew out of his declaration of martial law for the city a fortnight ago. The spanking took the form of an order sweeping from her streets all trucks except those bearing milk, ice, bread, fuel, newspapers, cinema films and necessities of life...
...Paris correspondents Mrs. Sara Delano Roosevelt, 80-year-old mother of the President, was chatting of her son. Newshawk: "Did you ever have to spank him?'' Mrs. Roosevelt: ''No, I never did. But I did lock him in the closet once, and I thought he would kick the door down, he was so furious...
...among Bangkok's spires circulars claiming that they could take the city in two days except that their friends and relatives in the city might get hurt. Premier Bahol raked up ten pilots loyal to his Cabinet and sent them up from a temporary airport in Bangkok to spank the rebels. Soon seven planes had crashed among the friends and relatives, one on the roof of the Grand Palace, which houses Premier Bahol's Government. On the ground Premier Bahol carried out his threat that "this will not be an other bloodless revolution." Bahol's men rushed...
...Peiping bland Japanese Charge d'Affaires S. Nakayama was asked flatly why Japan seized Shanhaikwan. "This deplorable frontier clash," said he in English, "arose from the long-pent desire of our Japanese frontier garrison to see active service and to 'spank,' if I may so express myself, the Chinese troops whom they had monotonously faced for 16 months...
When pious Doukhobors (religious sect) parade naked in protest, British Columbia police pepper their bare flesh with itch powder, spank their bare backs with short lengths of hose. In Thrums last week 200 angry, itching Doukhobors retaliated by squirting water at the peppering police. After furious scuffling 84 male and 33 female Doukhobors were arrested, charged with nudism, face possible jail sentences of three years...