Word: slam-bang
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...other side. The second movement went along at a dashing, rustic gallop, while the third strutted with the bravado of a teen-ager unaware of being observed. Some of the loveliest music came when the high clarinet played a melting melody while the bass clarinet throbbed, followed by a slam-bang finale...
...After a slam-bang 40,000-mile dash through 17 countries, Washington's Hostess-with-Mostes' Perle Mesta, still a little breathless in her mink stole and red velvet cloche, reported to a gathering of local newshens: "The Far East is sizzling." Of her near-fatal brush with rioting Vietnamese students in Saigon (TIME, Aug. 1), the lady who has often placated riotous guests with caviar and champagne confessed: "I had no idea what a mob was like. It was a miracle that I got out of Saigon with all my luggage." Biggest flop of her trip came...
...flamboyant journalism became sensational not only about sex ("LAW CAN'T TOUCH ME"-BABY'S FATHER) and crime (MOTHER SLAYS BABE IN WOODS TO MAKE WAY FOR LOVER), but about the most important national and international news as well. For example, more in the interest of slam-bang headlines than from political conviction, Britain's popular dailies outdid each other the minute the U.S. made the announcement in March 1954 of the destructive powers of the hydrogen bomb. HELL BOMB, HORROR BOMB, and other black-scare headlines filled every Page One, along with such articles...
...learned to strip the acres of clay-country individuality with the merciless efficiency of a cotton-picking machine. She can also slash through the window boxes and buckthorn hedges and expose the peckernecks who have moved to town and put on pretensions. Her instruments are a brutal irony, a slam-bang humor and a style of writing as balefully direct as a death sentence. The South that simpers, storms and snivels in these pages moves along a sort of up-to-date Tobacco Road, paved right into town...
...Golden Bears for intercollegiate football's nationally televised game-of-the-week, the Sooners warmed up fast. By the end of the first half they had a slim lead (7-6). But their outweighed (by some 15 Ibs. a man) line was out charging its opponents, their slam-bang tackling was setting up California fumbles, their split-second ball-handling was beating the Bear line backers to the punch...