Word: swatting
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...brother Bill: "She was always telling us, and she made us listen, that Dad always kept his word . . . We had rules in our house. If your mother or father told you to do something, you did it. And they only told you once. The second time it meant a swat across the mouth." To this day, one of Jimmy Hoffa's proudest boasts-confirmed by people who deal with him-is that he always keeps his word...
...professor, he promised to be back in two hours, so father could ride to his English class. When Professor Eliot stormed into the gallery five hours later, his son was staring at an early Picasso "with the gaze small boys usually reserve for double banana splits. A fatherly swat brought Alex to, but it also woke him. he recalls, to the sudden awareness that for him a painting might be more important than a bicycle...
...that the government jobs in their provinces would continue to go .to the locals. But the regime has already installed its men as governors of the four West Pakistan provinces, and they will cooperate in the provincial dissolution. The princely rulers-including the Khan of Kalat, the Wali of Swat and the Jam Saheb of Las Bella-noting the direction of the wind, obediently consented that their states should be wiped...
...talking to her by pretending he was deaf in his left ear. Of F.D.R.'s Potomac cruises he thought no more than he did of state dinners: "It means sitting on a hot deck hour in and hour out. with little to do except to swat flies." Dinners at the White House were "dull and tiresome...
Bizarre cases of cataplexy rounded up by Dr. Levin: ¶A man who had attacks if he tried to scare a cat away, swat a fly, squash a bug or land a fish. ¶A boxer who had his opponent on the ropes, but could not bring himself to deliver the finishing punch. ¶Tennis players who, in the middle of a volley, drop the racket and either go limp in the arm or fall down...