Word: slammed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last week--4-0. Season to date--4-0, 1,000. A grand slam...
...Siders without socks. And so on. Then this came to be known as the Preppie Look, and every upstart from the suburbs was marching around looking as if he were home from Princeton for the weekend. So how were the real aristocrats to proclaim themselves? By going punk? Slam-dancing at the Harvard Club? As soon as one finds something to be snobbish about, everyone else has got hold of it, and so the central charm of snobbery, the feeling of being something special, vanishes...
...showed up at Kutsher's Country Club in Monticello, N.Y., for a game to raise funds for needy pro-basketball players. Indeed, the old stars do still seem to have it. Cousy, 55, handled the ball with magical dexterity, and when 7-ft. 1-in. Chamberlain, 46, slam-dunked a basket, the crowd roared as if "Wilt the Stilt" had never missed a season. Twyman, 49, who originally organized the benefit, does not think the pro game has changed all that much. Says Twyman, now a wholesale-grocery businessman: "If I was in shape and 23 again, I could...
...horrors of the Cuban regime. Recently in Paris, a person who introduced himself as an official of the Cuban embassy requested a meeting with me to "show me proof that would be made public if I did not refrain from my "counterrevolutionary" activities. My answer caused him to slam down the phone. Subsequently, I received an anonymous telephone call warning me they would make public a film showing me exercising. They were, I presume, hoping to discredit my claims of paralysis. Finally, Fidel Castro wrote to French Communist Party Leader Georges Marchais describing me as a murderer and threatening...
...contestants cannot sacrifice quality to slash prices, because Japanese consumers are famous for their fussiness. When shopping for refrigerators, they feel the surface of the units to make sure that screwheads do not protrude and that the corners are round and smooth. Picky customers also slam the doors to find out how noisy they will be. Auto buyers check the upholstery for the proper stitching, open the hood to look at the welds and examine the paint job inside the trunk. Any company that does not meet the prevailing quality standards is soon in trouble...