Word: slams
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard's Paul Palandjian accounted for the Crimson's second victory with a stunning upset of John Letts at number five. Letts reached the doubles semifinals one of the four major professional "Grand Slam" events, the Australian Open, earlier this year. Nonetheless, Palandjian prevailed in three sets...
...Baylor's grand slam with two out in the eighth inning Thursday broke a 2-2 tie and gave the Boston Red Sox a 6-2 victory over the Kansas City Royals...
...Minister Georgi Korniyenko in Moscow. In an interview with an Algerian weekly, Gorbachev complained that the Geneva summit "half opened the door to hope, but this ray of light so frightened the people associated with the U.S. military-industrial complex that they threw their weight against the door to slam it shut." As one Soviet official exploded to an American journalist, "Your side is taking us for gullible fools...
...march winds past the White House--symbol of oppression. The marchers begin to sing something about Ronald Reagan, Jerry Falwell and garbage heaps in back alleys. Some women slam down red-painted coat hangers on the pavement. There is a huge pile of twisted wire in front of the White House...
Patrick J. Buchanan, White House director of communications and resident ideologue, is chief architect of the President's strategy of pugnacious confrontation with Congress on aid to the Nicaraguan rebels. Reagan's decision to make a slam-bam push for contra aid was widely regarded in the capital as a personal victory for the tenacious Buchanan, who lately has been on something of a roll. If the contra aid strategy succeeds, Buchanan's ascendancy may signal as well a fundamental shift in the way the White House does business --from political pragmatism and compromise to ideological purity and contentiousness...