Word: slams
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mail's locomotive as it rounded a bend 75 miles from Karachi at 60 m.p.h. Sprawled athwart the rails dead ahead were two tank cars, filled with gasoline, from a freight which had run off the track ten minutes earlier. Before the Mail's engineer could even slam on his brakes, the locomotive was plowing through the tank cars. An explosion rent the air, and the first two cars burst into flame like struck matches. A thick column of smoke boiled into the air as the fire spread along the wooden ties setting car after car aflame. Before...
Wilson also plans to enter Joel Cohen in the hurdles. Cohen, who got off to a good start in the K. of C. meet only to slam into the first hurdle, has a strong opportunity to reach the finals...
...fourth match, Hoad faced Trabert on a soggy, rainswept court. "It was," said former Australian Champion Jack Crawford afterward, "the greatest tennis I have ever seen anywhere in the world." It was a battle of slam-bang serves, whistling forehands and slashing backhands by. the two hardest hitters in amateur tennis today. And when it was over, young Hoad had squared matters at two-all after a three-hour battle...
...previous champions: Jim Jeffries died; so did Bill Tilden and Jim Thorpe. Handy Earl Sande, 54, and hard up for eating money, cinched on a saddle and tried for a comeback (but booted home only one winner). And in the biggest sweep since Bobby Jones's "grand slam" in 1930, Ben Hogan wrapped up the three big titles of golf, to become sport's Man of the Year...
...Boston last week, company officials maintained official silence. Though armed with a working contract running till 1988, they had agreed to revisions when Figueres held office the first time in 1948. When measured against the slam-bang attitude of Guatemala's Red-led land reformers, the Figueres approach practically reeked of sweet reasonableness. But the fact remained that any new deal in Costa Rica would surely set the pattern for future negotiations over Unifruit's important holdings in Honduras and Panama...