Word: slams
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After 15 minutes the societies started to slam their windows to give notice that their tapping was done. Each time a window closed the juniors about me looked up anxiously, trying to determine from what quarter a blessing might still descend...
Senator Kefauver's big eight-day show in New York had only about an hour to run one afternoon last week, but it was really only half over. In one fast slam-bang finish, the scenery collapsed, the players' masks were yanked off, and there, in full view of fascinated millions watching through TV screens, stood the skeleton of corruption, deceit and bribery in the world's greatest city...
...Chinese were tenacious, so Wray called for artillery and air support. High explosive shells dug dark geysers out of Hill 166, air bursts twinkled brightly above it, and mortar shells dropped in with their smashing slam. During the barrage, the Americans scanned Hill 166. When the shelling lifted, they went back to their small arms. Sergeant Thomas Toolen pointed to a Red pillbox nestled close by the graves. "See it?" he asked then "Hey, Graham, give him a couple of rounds!" Pfc. Donald Graham fired a short burst from his BAR across the shallow valley into the Communist emplacements...
...final, which took 75 minutes, Nancy's slam-bang strokes, delivered with the verve if not the skill of an Alice Marble, took the edge off Beverly's gambling game. In a match that was closer than the score indicated, Nancy won, 6-4, 6-4. Said she: "This is the year to bust up the Brough-Du Pont monopoly...
...reception was planned by former Cityites Ira Kukin 1G, Herbert B. Thau 3L, and Ascher Katz 3L. Kukin and his confederates have had the possibility of a local graduate organization in mind since last year when they saw the enthusiasm and support via Cambridge television of the "Grand Slam Kids"--the Beaver team that swept through seven straight games to take both the National Invitation Tournament and N.C.A.A. titles in Madison Square Garden...