When automakers began offering power windows, they just slapped a motor where the hand crank used to go.

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He smoked a pipe and slapped a steel ruler against his hand.

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Another plaintiff, Abdullah Turner, who's black, said he was waiting for a friend who was returning a sweater inside a Bronx building when an officer slapped his cellphone out of his hand and demanded to know what he was doing outside.

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Every sentence we cherished was sturdy and Biblical in its form, carved somehow by hand-dragged implement or slapped onto sheets by an inky key.

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One man grabbed her scarf and hand, she says, and she slapped him.

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