Word: slams
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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EDITOR RALPH MCGILL, in the ATLANTA CONSTITUTION : PRESIDENT Dwight D. Eisenhower may not know too much about the fine arts of diplomacy. But as an excellent bridge player, he well understands the technique of leading through strength to weakness. In one grand-slam move the President took from the Russians the "peace" initiative they have so long held. The world has but to stretch forth its hand to have peace and prosperity such as we have not dared to dream...
...learned to strip the acres of clay-country individuality with the merciless efficiency of a cotton-picking machine. She can also slash through the window boxes and buckthorn hedges and expose the peckernecks who have moved to town and put on pretensions. Her instruments are a brutal irony, a slam-bang humor and a style of writing as balefully direct as a death sentence. The South that simpers, storms and snivels in these pages moves along a sort of up-to-date Tobacco Road, paved right into town...
...when a man is all tuckered out, some señorita is like as not to come slinking up with a rose in her teeth and a pigsticker in her rebozo. Actor Lancaster (a co-producer of the movie) is the virtuoso in this symphony of slam. He slugs his women and plugs his men with a beatific smile. Actor Cooper, as usual, looks as if he hates to shoot anybody, but it's amazing how often he has to ("He likes people," as Lancaster sums up, "and you can never count on a man like that...
...Golden Bears for intercollegiate football's nationally televised game-of-the-week, the Sooners warmed up fast. By the end of the first half they had a slim lead (7-6). But their outweighed (by some 15 Ibs. a man) line was out charging its opponents, their slam-bang tackling was setting up California fumbles, their split-second ball-handling was beating the Bear line backers to the punch...
...defeating his old bogey Hogan in a brilliant play-off.- And at the Palm Beach tournament in May, he won with a sizzling 338 for five rounds. Recently, he sent in his entry for the British Open in July-obviously a bid for the professional golfer's "Grand Slam" (P.G.A., Masters...