Word: slammed
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There are plenty of particulars that will require some fancy footwork by Nitze & Co. If the Soviets do not simply slam the door on negotiations, they are likely to insist that any accounting of weapons in Europe include the French and British nuclear arsenals, as well as such "forward based" nuclear delivery systems as the U.S. F-111 fighter-bombers based in Britain and submarines on patrol in the North Atlantic. Although the U.S. would prefer to see the discussions focus solely on intermediate-range ground missiles such as the Pershing II and SS-20, one top U.S. policymaker admits...
...body and result in the same injuries, some produce their own peculiar ills. Golfers get twinges of golfer's elbow. Swimmer's shoulder may catch up with anybody who favors the butterfly stroke. There is even something known as "dunk laceration syndrome" that strikes highflyers who slam the ball through the basket, hitting their hands against the hoop...
...testing eye-hand coordination. Reaching with the left hand for not-quite-clean plates; right for dirty, so the left can pick up the stainless stell. A quick move to get glasses, cups, and deep-dished bowls to their separate dishwasher to get them cleaner; dump the detergent, slam the doors, turn the knobs; run to the sink and scrub the pot Gregory just left...
...series goes the full seven, with the Red Sox winning the World Championship for the first time since 1918 on a Rich Gedman grand slam in the bottom of the ninth. Luis Aponte is the winner; 15,667 fans go wild...
...boom that the tax cut is supposed to bring about. Says Oklahoma Democrat Jim Jones, chairman of the House Budget Committee: "My fear is that the program now put in place by the Administration is the equivalent of stepping hard on the gas at the same time as you slam on the brakes. The result will sound spectacular-until either the brakes fail or the engine blows. It is a gamble of titanic proportions...