Word: slammed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...King's Men (Columbia), a movie version of Robert Penn Warren's 1947 Pulitzer Prizewinning novel, is a tabloid view of a power-mad politician who has set his heart on bossing the world. The best of recent Hollywood attempts to fuse studio and documentary styles, this slam-bang indictment of grass-roots demagoguery is full of punch and color: melodramatic shots of campaign barbecues, torchlight parades, legislative brawling and backroom political deals...
...pennant-bound St. Louis Cardinals made it tough for themselves by succumbing to the lowly Pittsburgh Pirate, 6 to 4, last night, maintaining a one game lead over the idle Brooklyn Dodgers. Rookie Saffell's grand slam homer in the second eliminated starter Red Munger. Bill Werle gave the Cards, eight hits, going...
...Division Street had a game called Let Her Fly. It was easy to learn, and it was a dandy game because it made the winner feel good and the loser feel terrible. All the player had to do was wrap up some garbage, sneak up on his opponent and slam it in his face. But the play had to be fair & square. Just before the pitch the thrower had to yell...
...Santiago last week, a student protest against a 14% hike in bus fares turned into ugly rioting over the cost of living. The rioters even tried to rush La Moneda, the presidential palace, but tear gas held them off until palace guards could slam shut the great wooden doors...
...platform for the display of Merman's singing voice, which ranges from a 100-proof whisper to a strident bellow, her theater-born gift of timing, and her immaculately correct intonation for every funny line. With this bristling arsenal, Ethel puts starch into the feeblest jokes; her rowdy, slam-bang personality is nearly as full-bodied on the air as it was in such Broadway smashes a Annie Get Your Gun, Something for the Boys and Du Barry Was a Lady...