Word: slams
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...women's lacrosse team ran like a rabbit and left Princeton and Maryland searching for eggs this Easter weekend, capturing a 6-2 victory over the Tigers in Princeton, N.J. and a 10-5 slam over the Terrapins in College Park...
...risk of becoming their prisoner. Released on $50,000 bond three weeks after the appellate-court ruling, Adams was soon out of his orange prison uniform and into a borrowed shirt and tie, then whisked off to a Houston studio to appear on Nightline, the first of a slam-bang round of television appearances. Awkward at first, Adams quickly seemed as comfortable as Tom Hanks discussing his latest movie on Johnny Carson's couch. For the moment, prying reporters have become as ever present as guards. On the plane to Ohio, flight attendants passed food trays bucket-brigade style over...
ABOUT this time of year, I'd really like to slam my door shut, hang out my "Do Not Disturb" sign and just hide, because there are so many things that I am so incredibly sick...
Kareem's association with Khaalis was brief, but a vague connection to mystery and darkness lingered. Unlike Wilt Chamberlain, who slouched in layup drills and favored finger rolls over slam dunks, Kareem lacked the good taste to be chagrined by his size, to shrink himself down to tradition, to hide the shame of his incongruous talents. He was as tall as Chamberlain and yet as agile as Bill Russell. "His sky hook," says Russell, who seldom rhapsodizes, "is the most beautiful thing in sports...
...turnevery phase of its game up a notch. Its passeswere more crisp, its defense was more inspired andits press was more fear-some. The result was thatYale's scorching 62 percent first-half shootingplummeted to a more seasonal 43 percent, and theCrimson converted on numerous steals, including athunderous breakaway slam by Ron Mitchell on afeed from Gielen...