Word: sluggings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...spring. After months of bouncing profitably around the banquet circuit, complaining about the food, and embarrassing his hosts with curt, monosyllabic speeches, Maris last week: dismissed young autograph seekers by signing programs with an X, announced a new policy of "no interview" to sportswriters, cursed out and threatened to slug U.P.I. Columnist Oscar Fraley, refused to pose for a photograph with Hall of Famer Rogers Hornsby. Said TV's longtime "Voice of the Yankees" Mel Allen: "Maris has a lot to learn about warmth, appreciation, graciousness, and that sort of thing...
...headlines out of Berlin were dramatic-an American commandant held up at the East-West frontier; a Soviet jeep chased by U.S. troops in retaliation. General Lucius Clay, the President's special representative in Berlin, flew to Washington to demand that the local commander get more freedom to slug back at Communist provocations, unhampered by "contingency plans" requiring a check with Washington before action...
...bald, unprepossessing man who looked like a half brother to both Adlai Stevenson and Alfred Hitchcock, Giesler delivered his exhortations to juries in a crescendoing whine, sometimes trailing off into the deep purple. He defended Walter Wanger after the jealous producer fired a -38-cal. slug into the groin of a fellow whom he considered too attentive to his wife, Joan Bennett. Giesler decided this was temporary insanity. "For a brief mo ment," he told the jury, "through the violet haze of early evening, Wanger saw things in a bluish flash." The jury some how saw it that...
Famed in Los Angeles as the gladdest glad-hander of them all, Norris Poulson made the mistake of trying to slug it out with Yorty. He linked Yorty with Nevada gamblers, claimed his opponent had underworld support. Yorty sued for $3,300,000 for slander. Suffering from a severe case of laryngitis, Poulson also made the tactical error of appearing on television shows with the vigorous Yorty, left the impression that he was a sick and tired...
...chaos broke around his head. Erratic Patrice Lumumba wanted protection in his refuge in the Premier's residence. From his own villa near by, President Joseph Kasavubu sulked and hurled insults at the U.N. One afternoon Colonel Joseph Mobutu strode into Dayal's office, asked for a slug of Scotch, and announced that a coup d'état would take place within ten minutes...