Word: slammings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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BATTLES IN THE MONSOON, by S.L.A. Marshall. Brigadier General "Slam" Marshall's thorough familiarity with the red visage of war produces a telling account of its Vietnamese aspect during one bloody campaign in the summer...
...play, Washington decided that Svetlana could not come directly to the U.S., instead found temporary refuge for her in Switzerland. Sensitive to Russian pressures, the Swiss granted her a visa only on the condition that she stay out of sight and do nothing that could be interpreted as a slam at the Soviet Union. Although Svetlana is not a political person ("I hate politics," she told an Indian friend), she obviously could not remain in that condition indefinitely. She decided to come...
BLACK COMEDY is a slam-bang comedy-literally. The humor of Peter Shaffer's one-acter springs more from body English than feats of wit. It is based on a single conceit -agile actors in a blaze of lights behave and misbehave, bump and reel, as if in total darkness...
...before next May's primary, may also be on the ballot in Nebraska and Wisconsin. To withdraw, says his press secretary, "would call to mind a picture of the citizens of the country knocking on the door and telling you they want you to be President, and you slam the door in their face...
Many moderate Republicans are hoping that somebody will slam the door on Reagan. In an envenomed editorial on "Creeping Reaganism" in its monthly newsletter, the liberal Ripon Society said that his candidacy would turn 1968 into a year of "disaster and disunity" rivaling 1964. "It is a misreading of the '64 election," it said, "to think that a better-manicured man, lacking Goldwater's crusty honesty, can turn the same programs into victory