Word: slamming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Laboratory Search. The search for this hardy life should not be carried out in a hasty, slam-bang manner, said the report. The first step, though, can be carried out at once: laboratory work aimed at determining just what kinds of life are chemically possible. If chemical systems are found that might be the basis of novel, non-earthly forms of life, the instruments sent to Mars should be equipped to look for them as well as for familiar life...
...resembles a pint-sized Gregory Peck. Li was the crowd favorite. Often laying back as far as 20 ft. from the table, he brought gasps of astonishment from the crowd of 8,000 as he casually returned smash after smash, biding his time until he uncoiled to slam a blur of white past Chuang for a point. After four games, the score was tied; in the final game, Li leaped into a 10-6 lead before Chuang rallied to tie it up again at 15-all. Then, possibly by prearrangement, Li's game fell apart. Abandoning his entire offense...
...Unbelievable," sighed Palmer. "Fantastic," agreed Player. So what's next for Jack Nicklaus? Well, there's always the Grand Slam, the unrequited dream of every golfing great. He would only have to win the Masters, U.S. Open, P.G.A. and British Open-all this year, of course. "And why not?" demanded Jack. "After all, I'm the only...
...well I fit in," he thought. "They all think they're so smart around here, but they'd never suspect..." Yet even before he finished this reflection, Bundie felt something slam into him and knock him off his feet. Picking himself up from the path, he saw a small foreign-looking man with dark glasses scramble up from the ground and rush over...
...15th Amendment. More important, it is aimed precisely at the barricades that have delayed quick action in the past. Significantly, most of the power to act in voting cases would be moved out of the courts and into the hands of the executive branch. The bill would slam hardest at its biggest targets -those states with the most outstanding records of voter discrimination...