Word: slammed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Mitchell's thunderous slam off a Gielen steal capped the rally, bringing the roaring packed house to its feet...
...flunkies spring hurler "Wild Thing" Vaughn (Charlie Sheen) from the slammer, take a veteran catcher (Tom Berenger) out of exile from the Mexican Leagues and find a voo-doo-worshipping Caribbean slugger (Dennis Haysbert), who can slam fast balls into left field but fans at any curve ball...
...Courtside, Madison Square Garden, Jackson alley-oop pass to Ewing. Slam City...
...more than twice the take-home pay of Mikhail Gorbachev. (Says Sukachev: "If I had his house and his car, he could have my 3,000.") Still, success has its problems. "It's really dangerous when people start to praise you for doing the things they used to slam you for," he notes. The band now risks losing the special edge to its sound that developed from the tension of fighting for the right to play its music...
...even by his admirers. On the other hand, the novel invites trespass by symbol hunters. One can easily imagine college sophomores arguing over the meaning of a stuffed armadillo that has had its claws removed, or the significance of Wheelwright's carrying his small friend on his shoulders to slam-dunk a basketball. For graduate students there is the fact that Meany shares more than initials with Oskar Matzerath, the runt hero of Gunter Grass's masterpiece, The Tin Drum...