1.   At a recent luncheon, speaker Jim Rash gave coach Kulak a blue Rotary mug and a hearty slap on the back.

2.   I was sitting next to him, and he punctuated his answer by giving my thigh three hearty slaps.

3.   Then he was pleasantly startled by a hearty slap on the back from Sen. Robert Byrd, the Democratic dean.

4.   When Leffler stepped out of his parked car, his face flush, Cram greeted him with a smile and a hearty slap on his shoulder.