Word: slam-bang
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...five Scottish teams scored such a shutout, but they did manage to whip the Americans in the first test match, 109-54. In the second match, the U.S. did better, only lost 94-83. The Scotsmen played a camay, conservative game, in sharp contrast to the generally slam-bang U.S. style. The Scots used blockade tactics in front of the scoring circle until the skip, comparable to cleanup batter in baseball, could send his final stone down to nudge his teammates' into the bull...
...order, they said later, to make the U.S. team overconfident. In the match, Schroeder and Trabert did not suffer from overconfidence; they suffered from Schroeder's slipshod play. Schroeder was the only player on the court to lose his service, four times in all. Although generally considered a slam-bang player, Schroeder scored only three placements. Trabert had 17, McGregor had 19, and the indefatigable Sedgman had 24. The Aussies won handily...
...line Government departments. For most of the year, Wilson has been riding herd on dozens of bureaus and agencies which were not always going in the same direction. But when he reported to Washington, he was given almost unlimited powers. He has not always used them in the slam-bang way that was expected, particularly in shaking up the poky procurement methods of the Pentagon. A year after the Korean war, there are still no detailed estimates of the amount of war materials needed or a schedule for delivery of these materials...
...Jaroslav Drobny, 32, a self-exiled Czech now playing for Egypt, and South Africa's Eric Sturgess, 29, whose smooth ground strokes are reminiscent of the days when tennis was played, and won, from the base line. By the semifinals of the French tournament not one of the slam-bang U.S. players was left, and the pride of the victorious Australian Davis Cup team, Frank Sedgman and Ken McGregor, fell before the patient craftiness of the two aging veterans...
Senator Kefauver's big eight-day show in New York had only about an hour to run one afternoon last week, but it was really only half over. In one fast slam-bang finish, the scenery collapsed, the players' masks were yanked off, and there, in full view of fascinated millions watching through TV screens, stood the skeleton of corruption, deceit and bribery in the world's greatest city...