Word: slugging
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Across the Channel, the change in mood and tense is more than linguistic. Un Conde (The Cop) plays the game of cops and robbers with the impact and subtlety of a .45 slug. Inspector Favenin (Michel Bouquet) has been censured for insubordination. Sullen, spiritually bankrupt, he blurs the distinction between criminal and keeper. When a young colleague is murdered, Favenin cracks. With deranged courage, he preempts the entire legal profession-cop, lawyer, judge, jury, executioner-and runs the gang to earth, ritualistically following the sanguinary vitality of the ancient Warner Bros, gangster movies...
Last February, Plainclothes Patrolman Frank Serpico and two other New York City policemen knocked at the door of a suspected Brooklyn heroin pusher. When the door opened a crack, Serpico shouldered his way in only to be met by a .22-cal. pistol slug crashing into his face. Somehow he survived, although there are still bullet fragments in his head, causing dizziness and permanent deafness in his left ear. Almost as painful is the suspicion that he, and perhaps his partners, may well have been set up for the shooting by other policemen. For Serpico, 35, has been waging...
...game was ?nrgely a chance for the Crimson to fatten its scoring stat??. Bath teams played a slug? game, and Harvard concentrated its efforts on the Princeton...
Waterbeds are empty and easy to handle when delivered from the store. They can be filled by connecting a hose to a bathroom faucet (wise owners will also pour in a healthy slug of Clorox to ward off the formation of algae). But once filled, the waterbed becomes almost impossible to move; a king-size version will weigh around...
...Palmer, Mike Cuellar and Dave McNally-helped hold Cincinnati's vaunted sluggers to a meager .213 average and only five home runs. And Frank Robinson, Boog Powell and Paul Blair backed a .292 Baltimore hitting attack that accounted for 50 hits and 33 runs. The Orioles' slug ging average of .509 was in fact a record for a five-game Series, as were their ten home runs. Even McNally got into the act as he became the first pitcher in Series history to hit a grand-slam home...