Word: slamming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...says a railroad porter. But what preoccupies him more and more now is compressed portraits of a lifetime. O'Hara once used to open the door to the family living room, glimpse a confrontation, record a riposte driven into the heart of one character by another and slam the door, apparently pleased with himself. Now he walks in and begins describing the furniture of somebody's mind. The perimeter of perceived experience has been expanded by his ever-lengthening memory of countless parlors and other rooms, and O'Hara appears at home in every one of them...
People might have been more surprised if he had told them the sun had come up on schedule that morning. Rocky has been running hard for a long while. But he injected some fresh drama into the occasion by charging off to New Hampshire, where he planned a slam-bang handshaking tour to kick off his campaign. It was raining buckets that day, but Rocky plodded gamely on, sometimes through ankle-deep mud. Despite the storm, he found hundreds of hands to shake. And he played the grass-roots campaigner to the hilt. In Milford he sipped a chocolate soda...
...team's Hawaiian farm club. Clearly skeptical about his chance to contribute to the delinquency of the Minors, Bo declared, "I'm not gonna go." When the L.A. management cut off his $15,000 salary, Bo was literally disengaged-except to his fiancée, a grand-slam blonde known around Hollywood as Mamie Van Doren, 30. What next? "Well, there are a few movies coming up," says the handsome moundsman, "and what the hell, everybody is doing a nightclub act." Adds Mamie: "Bo has a heck of a good voice. I know, because he sings...
...dealer usually makes no profit until he sells the used car. If used cars are not selling, he understandably lowers the amount he will allow a customer on a trade-in. This, in effect, raises the price of the new car, and too much scaling down of prices can slam the brakes on any auto boom. There is, in fact, a school of thought in Detroit that argues that it all moves in cycles: as new-car sales increase, trade-ins bring in more used cars until the lots become clogged and prices begin to drop to move them...
Stuart, acquired in an off-season trade with Pittsburgh, put the first game out of reach with his grand slam drive into the left field screen in the third inning...