Word: slamming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...basket, floor-bound opponents are flabbergasted by a human helicopter who can soar from the foul line to the backboard with magnificent ease. With Erving handling the red, white and blue A.B.A. ball, a standard stuff shot turns into airborne acrobatics, often ending in a backward, over-the-head slam dunk. A lay-up is embellished with the kind of fakery that the Harlem Globetrotters made famous...
...Lacerating though he and some of his rivals have been to the Administration, Wright makes a candid and astonishing confession: "I'm afraid we've lost our capacity to be vicious. We don't seem to get cartoons with explosive impact any more, the kind that slams somebody right between the eyes with no subtlety at all." He is too modest about his ability to slam. In fact, his work should satisfy the keenest appetite for cartoons that bludgeon...
...Then some girls ran by," Suit recalled, "and they were yelling, 'It's a bomb, a bomb-everybody out!' We saw the bank slam down its window and heard some pops, which sounded like firecrackers. That's when we said, 'My God, it must be serious!' " In fact, what the hundreds of unsuspecting travelers heard was the sound of gunfire. The fusillade signaled the start of a guerrilla attack in Rome last week that turned into the bloodiest rampage in the surreal five-year history of Arab skyjack terrorism. Before it ended 30 hours...
...punch-drunk boxer is a stock character in movies and fiction, a mainstay of many a stand-up comic's nightclub routines. But there is nothing funny about the condition some doctors call "dementia pugilistica." Doctors have known for years that a hard blow to the head can slam the jelly-like brain against the rigid skull and cause permanent damage. Now a trio of British researchers has documented just how serious-and how widespread among boxers-this damage is likely to be. In a study published last month in the journal Psychological Medicine, they report that the pounding...
...latest Mitford gadflight began three years ago as a quick assignment for the American Civil Liberties Union. But by the time she had finished, the formidable Miss Mitford had visited all the prisons, from California to Massachusetts, that she could get into−jail doors, she discovered, can slam in two directions−and even spent a simulated prisoner's night in the Women's Detention Center in Washington...