Word: slammings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...long afternoon for three M.I.T. pitchers yesterday; they got little help from fielders who committed eight errors or from a catcher who had three passed balls and allowed Harvard eight stolen bases. In addition to Miller's grand-slam, captain Tom Stephenson had a late-inning round-tripper and little second baseman Skip Falcone smashed a wrong-field homer in the third...
...criticism of Nelson Rockefeller. At a fund-raising dinner in Los Angeles, Goldwater fired a volume of metaphors at President Johnson and the Bobby Baker scandal. Said he: "If a Republican President found a Bobby Baker in his closet, he would open the door and air it out, not slam the door and try to hide it . . . I don't care if there is a Baker's dozen of sacred cows involved in this scandal-they should be herded out in a roundup of honesty." Cheers and applause were thunderous. Even better: the $100-a-plate dinner netted...
...that winning teams like the U.C.L.A. Bruins are leaning on runts such as Walt Hazzard (6 ft. 2 in.), who make up in speed, style and teamwork what they lack in brute size. In all team sports, it is the drama of score-the breakaway touchdown, the grand-slam homer-that makes the excitement. In basketball, the scoringest sport in the land, it is the nerve-burning electricity of the highpoint game. The 1963-64 season saw shooting that would have been the envy of Marshal Dillon: an average of 148.8 points per game, two-team total...
...fingers into the fog, and the deep-throated barking of the Grenzpolizei's watchdogs echoed off the brick and barbed-wire barrier. A British military policeman scanned the Spree for escaping swimmers, but soon the searchlights flicked off, the dogs quieted, and the only sound was the rhythmic slam of Grepo boots on the cobblestones across the way. "They either got the poor bugger," muttered the MP, "or they were just seeing ghosts again." Life along the ugly Berlin Wall was back to abnormal...
...daiquiris and cheer wildly for players whose names they cannot pronounce. "Come on, Choo Choo!" they yell to Churruca, an acrobatic Basque whose specialty is running straight up a side wall to pick off a pelota 15 ft. above the floor. "Attababy, Orby!" they scream to Orbea, who can slam the ball into the front wall so accurately that it will hit a handkerchief halfway back down the court on the rebound...