Word: slambanger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Friday, when the Series moved to Ebbets Field, the fans were ready for Brooklyn's usual wide-open, slambang style of play. Instead, for eight innings, the game jogged right along in the pattern : a pitching exhibition between Brooklyn's usually erratic Ralph Branca, who settled down to retire 14 batters in a row and New York's ace-in-the-sleeve Relief Pitcher Joe Page, who replaced Tommy Byrne in the fourth inning...
...pale green floor of the House of Commons last week the champion orators of the Labor Party and of the Tory Opposition clashed in head-on combat. Technically they were debating Britain's monetary plight, but they both made slambang political speeches aimed straight at the forthcoming national elections...
...postwar period. When he finished he got a deafening ovation from Laborites. Deputy Premier Herbert Morrison's smile, however, was wan and sickly. With Attlee tired, Cripps and Ernie Bevin ailing, Morrison and Nye Bevan are the chief rivals for Labor leadership. Bevan's admirers thought his slambang speech had moved him several notches nearer to No. 10 Downing Street...
...Hatfields and McCoys of baseball were at it again; for the fifth time in nine years, the St. Louis Cardinals and the Brooklyn Dodgers were in a slambang fight for the National League pennant. The hopes of the other six clubs were as dead as Abner Doubleday's grandfather...
...whole thing is slambang, cutthroat stuff: it flings vanity and vulgarity in bucketfuls, like swill. It is, to be sure, burlesque; but burlesque, in some cases, of theater types for whom mere satire might be understatement. Yet its most successful moments stem from the actual small details of show business, and its most entertaining characters-the star's mother (Phyllis Povah) and the producer's wife (Audrey Christie)-are lowbrow rather than outrageous...