Word: slam-bang
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...fourth match, Hoad faced Trabert on a soggy, rainswept court. "It was," said former Australian Champion Jack Crawford afterward, "the greatest tennis I have ever seen anywhere in the world." It was a battle of slam-bang serves, whistling forehands and slashing backhands by. the two hardest hitters in amateur tennis today. And when it was over, young Hoad had squared matters at two-all after a three-hour battle...
...Boston last week, company officials maintained official silence. Though armed with a working contract running till 1988, they had agreed to revisions when Figueres held office the first time in 1948. When measured against the slam-bang attitude of Guatemala's Red-led land reformers, the Figueres approach practically reeked of sweet reasonableness. But the fact remained that any new deal in Costa Rica would surely set the pattern for future negotiations over Unifruit's important holdings in Honduras and Panama...
...Herter, the slender aristocrat, was his exact antithesis. As a friend put it bluntly, "Chris never did have that indefinable something that makes children and dogs follow him down the street." But in his campaign, Herter combined polite persuasion (best effort: small pizza parties arranged by friends) with a slam-bang attack on Dever's record ("Dever . . . has become the tool of the contractors who are doing the same jobs over and over again at your expense"). Herter won by a hairline 14,440 votes. In his short six months as governor, he has managed to impress something...
...Round 8, Gavilan tired of his cat & mouse tactics and went to work in earnest. The champion's slam-bang attack opened a cut under Davey's right eye. In Round 9, throwing bolos, uppercuts, hooks and crosses, Gavilan pounded Davey to the canvas three times, once clear through the ring ropes. Each time, Davey gamely got back on his feet, but it was clear that he was through for the night. When the bell sounded for Round 10, Davey sat in his corner, gagging from a bolo punch in the Adam's apple, unable to continue...
Stock car racing is a slam-bang sport with its own special sound effects-screeching tires, crumpling fenders and ten-car smashups. It requires nerve and verve for a driver to compete with any success. Tops in this careening career is a slim, wiry young (28) man named Julius Timothy Flock of Hapeville, Ga. A onetime auto salesman, "Tim" Flock, who comes from a family of racing drivers, discovered six years ago that racing a car was more profitable than selling one. His estimated income this season...