Word: slamming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Second baseman-Joel Markowski helped him out with a grand slam home run in the second inning -- a line shot mis-misjudged by the Springfielder. Markowski knocked in another run in the sixth on a single, after catcher Paul Saba had doubled...
...persistent critic of Detroit's safety record, Kennedy pointed out that astronauts and test pilots undergo much greater shocks than do people in many auto accidents-and survive. He asked the Government to force automakers to do something about protecting passengers from the "second collision" when they slam into a car's interior. "Our automobiles," he said, "are simply not designed to protect the passengers under these shocks." When military commanders want money to improve safety at airbases, added Kennedy, "they place the boots of dead pilots on the conference table before them. The boots of millions...
...Russian note was not above a little smarm. In a slam at Chinese militance, it had clucked at "such a disparaging approach to the life of millions of people, to the fate of entire nations." After such words, it was little wonder that the Chinese stayed away from Moscow this week when the Congress opened...
Kiddies' Aspirin. Critics who thought that Goddard was going too far too fast, and was likely to have higher authority slam on the brakes, were disabused of that notion by President Johnson's message to Congress on consumer interests. The President said he had appointed Goddard to give the agency "new leadership and new direction [and] a new structure fitted to the demands of the times...
This sort of slam hasn't had much impact in the Yard among any 97 pound weaklings in Group I. But a few lads have ventured down to the Radcliffe Quad to find out just how good these girls are. Miss Mary Paget, Coordinator of Recreational Activities, encourages this by organizing all kinds of co-ed competitions...