Word: slamming
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...baseball fallen? Consider this. The most dramatic event in baseball is the grand slam, an event so rare that the all-time grand-slam king, Lou Gehrig, hit only 23 in his entire career. There were 150,000 games played in the 20th century; in only nine did anyone hit two grand slams in a game. There were more than 1.3 million innings played; in not one did any player hit two in the same inning...
ENGAGED. ANNA KOURNIKOVA, 18, Russian tennis starlet, to Russian hockey pro PAVEL BURE, 28; in Miami. Kournikova, who won her first Grand Slam title (in doubles) in last year's Australian Open, lives in the same Miami Beach apartment building as the Florida Panther All-Star...
...away childlike voice that makes you want to hand her a box of tissues and some Godiva. In a slight concession to modern pop, Christina Aguilera also gets her props on the album, with a new song "Don't Make Me Love You," which is sure to slam Mandy Moore from the MTV countdown. Other artists include Olive, Solar Twins, Manu Chao and an instrumental by Gabriel Yared. All very eclectic music, all very cutting-edge, a conglomerate of music that should make for a rather interesting sound in a romantic comedy...
...social policy, they received some bad news. In the post-cold war world, their new Wall Street buddies informed them, you couldn't pump government money into the economy and watch it spring to life because the bond market, punisher of fiscal indiscipline, would force up interest rates and slam its foot on the brake. Bill Clinton adapted; he cut spending and the deficit, thus handing over the economic reins to Alan Greenspan. Not a bad strategy, except that honest liberals must now admit that inequality is greater, the safety net is thinner, and capitalism is fiercer after two terms...
Williams, who won the Grand Jury prize at the 1998 Sundance Film Festival for his portrayal of an imprisoned street poet in the movie Slam, also discussed the differing ideologies between "slam" poetry and "the black arts movement...