Word: slammingly
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...great shakes as a hitter. Waived into the American League, he started to break up ball games for the Boston Red Sox, fortnight ago knocked in the winning run in three successive games. Last week, Vollmer beat Cleveland (and Pitcher Bob Feller) with a 16th inning grand-slam home run. It was the twelfth game Vollmer had won for Boston, and left the Red Sox just .009 behind the league-leading Yankees...
...line Government departments. For most of the year, Wilson has been riding herd on dozens of bureaus and agencies which were not always going in the same direction. But when he reported to Washington, he was given almost unlimited powers. He has not always used them in the slam-bang way that was expected, particularly in shaking up the poky procurement methods of the Pentagon. A year after the Korean war, there are still no detailed estimates of the amount of war materials needed or a schedule for delivery of these materials...
...that they can't handle it [operating the fields and the refinery]." Abadan was already slowed down to 45% of its 500,000-bbl. daily capacity. Another 20 days, even of reduced output, and the tanks would be full and the great shutdown would come. Reluctant to finally slam the door, the British delayed their departure from hour to hour...
DICK SAVITT, 24, the U.S.'s Australian champion, a dogged slam-banger who has come far in the past year, but has also lost to Drobny six times out of seven...
...Jaroslav Drobny, 32, a self-exiled Czech now playing for Egypt, and South Africa's Eric Sturgess, 29, whose smooth ground strokes are reminiscent of the days when tennis was played, and won, from the base line. By the semifinals of the French tournament not one of the slam-bang U.S. players was left, and the pride of the victorious Australian Davis Cup team, Frank Sedgman and Ken McGregor, fell before the patient craftiness of the two aging veterans...