Word: slamming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Office of Strategic Services (forerunner of the CIA) during World War II, Bruce helped rebuild the Continent as an administrator of the Marshall Plan and later as Ambassador to France under Harry Truman. A strong advocate of a united Europe, he scored a kind of diplomatic grand slam by heading embassies in Bonn (under Dwight Eisenhower) and London (under John Kennedy) as well as Paris. His last assignment, fittingly, was as Ambassador to NATO, and ended only last year. Though Bruce was a lifelong Democrat, Richard Nixon named him to head the American delegation at the Viet Nam peace talks...
Hooft came off the bench and began his plexiglass-pummeling performance to make it 13-8. Cy Booker then went into his rim-bending routine with a swooping slam dunk to keep the lead at five points eight minutes into the game...
...love to see the basketball team open with a win tomorrow night, but UMass is tough and I'll settle for a packed house, a couple of Brian Banks's slam dunks, and just one Glenn Fine behind-the-back fastbreak assist...
...danger is that the ruling will make some newspapers gun-shy about running certain stories," says Jack Nelson, Washington bureau chief of the Los Angeles Times. Adds Investigative Reporter Carl Bernstein, of Watergate fame: "There is just that much more risk that you'll end up in the slam...
DIED. Clifford Roberts, 84, co-founder and president of the Augusta National Golf Club and for 43 years chairman of its prestigious Masters Tournaments; by his own hand (gunshot); in Augusta, Ga. A New York City investment banker and ardent amateur golfer, Roberts teamed up with Grand Slam Champion Bobby Jones to help launch the latter's "ideal" golf club in 1930. While its Masters Tournaments became well-attended sports classics, the austere, irascible Roberts kept Augusta National an exclusive golfing sanctuary for its 200-plus members. Among them...