Word: slambanger
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Coach MacDonald figures this afternoon's game to be somewhat of a repitition of the Army contest in that once again the issue will be whether a slambang type of play will break up the Crimson's short passing attack. West Point, probably the roughest team in the East, failed to do that and the Crimson won, 3 to 2, in overtime...
...House of Lords, Britain's Upper House, had daringly (and heavily) amended Labor's bill to nationalize transport (TIME, May 12), which the House of Commons had passed. Last week, the Commons debated the Lords' amendments. The session achieved a slambang abandon...
...Dewey, renominated for Governor by the G.O.P., came out swinging at the Democratic ticket, linking it with the red-rimmed American Labor Party and the C.I.O.'s Political Action Committee. Cried Prosecutor Tom: the A.L.P. is "dominated by the left-wing line of a foreign power." A slambang, right-v.-left battle was on, and both parties welcomed...
...corn rather than comedy. The heroine-a predaceous, flinthearted little heel, a kind of sister to John O'Hara's Pal Joey-is too harshly drawn for this kind of jamboree, too poorly drawn to rise above it. Before the evening is over, the constant thump and slambang of Billion Dollar Baby becomes a little fatiguing...
...Sculptors put the Mexican doctrine in writing, publicly repudiated "art for art's sake," and pledged themselves to paint murals "for the people." Among signers were Mexico's big three: Rivera, Orozco and Siqueiros. Backed by the world's most art-conscious Government, they made a slambang success...