Word: slammed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Columbus, Ohio, native tied the score, rocketing a four-run blast over the left field fence for the Crimson's first grand slam of the campaign...
...without the blooming azaleas and dogwood that provide what may be the most beautiful setting in all of sport, the Masters would be unequaled as a place to take the measure of the game's old champions and new challengers. It is the only one of golfs Grand Slam foursome annually contested over the same course...
...hand. As the 44th Masters begins this week, for the first time in more than 15 years Jack Nicklaus is not favored to win the tournament he has dominated like no other golfer in history. His Masters record forms the core of his unprecedented list of 15 Grand Slam titles: five Masters, three U.S. and British Opens and four PGA championships. But Nicklaus, 40, has not won a tournament since July 1978, and last year he dropped to 71st on the list of money winners after 18 years in the top five. His place on top has been taken...
...chaos: And, like Carlos, Schilling is a vain, insatiable womanizer who has honed boudoir and Beretta skills in North Africa, France and Switzerland. In Paul Henissart's Margin of Error (Simon & Schuster; 334 pages; $10.95), the swaggering former Foreign Legionnaire is assigned to an operation called Grand Slam. Its aim is to assassinate Anwar Sadat and pave the way for a Soviet-managed coup in Cairo. The action takes Bruno, in the footsteps of Cain and Carlos, to Zurich, where the Egyptian President has secretly arranged to undergo surgery...
...dreadlocks and kielbasa, an "industrial squeeze" that "looks like a luxury,/Feels like a disease." This is Modern Man bombarded by machines, crying for the human touch as he vocally ascends the scale to keep from being swallowed, and succumbs with a heart-rending wail. The song is followed slam-bang by "Beaten To the Punch," in which Elvis races to keep up with the noisy, busy instruments, seizing opportunities before everyone else, and discovering, as he goes under with a shriek, that he has become a prisoner of his choices...