Word: slamming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...from under Harold Robbins' overcoat in recent years: what might be called the substitution of analogy for insight. In other words, the writers who create them seem to think it is enough to show us characters who, they suggest with a wink (or more often a brutal slam in the ribs), are just like the famous people we are always reading about in the press. Whereupon they offer some Psych. 101 explanation for their characters' behavior and go off thinking that with this primitive bit of mimesis they have completed the artist's job. Of course, they...
...contract fattened with losing changes (It doesn't matter the oldest say 'You still go down in the mines') The slam of the tipple jarring his brain thinking bland-faced of the spring flood from the strip mine The mud water in his sink and cellar...
Sidney Wicks converted an alley-oop slam dunk into a three-point play with 1:04 remaining to put the Celts ahead to stay. Hustling Kermit Washington contributed 18 points and 17 rebounds...
...create a lush, integral sound by using such devices as 106 acrylic "reflector" discs suspended from the ceiling and a huge vault below the stage. There are some minor, doubtless correctable difficulties. The bass is not quite rich enough. When Van Cliburn sat down on opening night to slam his way through his trademark concerto, Tchaikovsky's first, he was drowned out in one area of the hall whenever the orchestra joined in: his notes were blocked by the raised top of the Steinway. Not even Jaffe thought of everything...
...manifested itself slowly, but there was Cyrus Booker emerging from an early season sleep-walk to throw down scintillating slam dunks night after night and hit for double figures in 13 of Harvard's last 16 contests...