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Word: clobber (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sort of manufactured high spirits that could be bottled and labeled "Whimsical Abandon." They check into a hotel for a quick afternoon rendezvous, lose track of time and spend the rest of the day together, making love and painting silly designs over each other's bodies. They practically clobber each other with cuteness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Imported Variety | 9/13/1976 | See Source »

Surely, Cornell is eager to retain that distinction, and the best way to do that is to clobber everyone in sight. And that is exactly what the Big Red came determined to do yesterday afternoon at the Business School Field, as the team demolished the Crimson...

Author: By David Clarke, | Title: Big Red Destroys Overmatched Crimson Stickmen, 21-7; Passing by All-American Attack Key to Cornell's Offense | 4/22/1976 | See Source »

...Strathmeyer with ebullient support as he took to the mats while a hyped-up partisan crowd cheered on the Quakers. The Crimson was trailing 16-13 when Strathmeyer knifed in for the deciding take-down. "He hit a guy with a fireman's carry and went on to clobber him," said Smith...

Author: By Robert I. W. sidorsky, | Title: Tigers Devour Grapplers, 31-8, But Crimson Stymies Quakers | 2/9/1976 | See Source »

...running department Coach Bob Hunt said he forsees the Crimson coming out ahead against the Huskies. "With Northeastern the meets either go down to the relays or we clobber them, we'll just have to wait and see," he said...

Author: By James Cramer, | Title: Crimson Thinclads Challenge Northeastern Today | 1/17/1974 | See Source »

Tallo dressed down one tank that was taking too much time shelling a bunker into which several Egyptians had fled. "The Jews are getting excited," he explained. Then he added, in some frustration: "The Egyptians are running away, and we cannot clobber them." Watching desert dogs fleeing from the Israeli tanks, Tallo said in disgust: "Even the dogs are running away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EYEWITNESSES: Reports from the Cease-Fire Fronts | 11/5/1973 | See Source »

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