Word: slams
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fact, he has become a fly himself--the Truman Capote of journalism, caught up in appearances and in his own right-wing nativist assessment of American life. Mauve Gloves and Madmen, Clutter and Vine leaves you with the feeling that if you were to suddenly say, "oh bullshit," and slam the book shut under Wolfe's nose, he would stand there dumb and amazed, little beads of fear and ignorance on his forehead, with no idea what you were talking about...
Last Saturday night, five seconds after the final buzzer had sounded, signifying the Eagles' narrow 75-71 win over Harvard, Bennifield took the ball, dribbled to the top of the key, took off, and slam-dunked the thing right through the hoop...
...dirt racing technique that requires each driver to gauge the velocity of his car against its distance from other vehicles while skidding laterally around a slick clay oval at 100 m.p.h. - up to four hurtling Chevys all fishtailing in unison. For excitement, the power slide is a grand slam homer and game-winning touchdown wrapped into one. It is this kind of action and these kind of men that draw perhaps 500,000 Southerners on a weekend to some 100 small tracks operating week after week for nine months a year. The sport defies economic logic. A late-model sports...
...squad would be the understatement of the season. If they had played the national anthem before the game, the band wouldn't have gotten past the first few bars before Northeastern had a man hugging each base. And the bombs were just bursting when Scott Medowsky hit a grand slam that put Harvard in the hold by four...
Five Crimson errors hardly helped the cause of starter Larry Brown and three relievers; three Navy home runs (two by Ed Abner, one a grand slam) helped even less...