Word: clobbered
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While the Crimson took on a spectator role, Smith bounced back to clobber Wellesley, 15-12, 15-4, in the second match of the evening. Harvard followed suit...
...lawyer offered his services, a rock group threatened to clobber the prosecutors, and a cat promised to mount a demonstration. Not many prisoners are greeted by such a flood of sympathetic responses. But then few convicts serving life sentences are two years old; fewer still have four legs. Bubu is, in short, no common or garden-variety lawbreaker. A green-eyed tomcat, he was recently found guilty of trespassing on a neighbor's property in the Bavarian town of Passau and sentenced to confinement on his own side of the fence for life. In addition, the local court threatened...
...leaned toward guns, toughness and tolerance of the extreme right. Early in the Reagan Administration, former Secretary of State Alexander Haig struck just the wrong note with his tough talk about "going to the source." He meant Cuba. He seemed to be suggesting that if the U.S. could just clobber Fidel Castro, the Sandinistas in Nicaragua would behave, or better yet, go away. He also inadvertently aroused suspicion that he was blind to indigenous sources of turmoil, such as poverty and social injustice...
...funny thing about Californians and water polo. In the national rankings, there are two divisions: the West--California--is best, while the Eastern schools--the rest of the country--annually provide the opposition for the Californians to clobber at the national championships...
...effortless British successes-the retaking of South Georgia Island, the bombing of the Falklands' airstrips and the sinking of the cruiser General Belgrano-Argentines savored the notion that in destroying H.M.S. Sheffield they had evened the score. Declared a Buenos Aires taxi driver: "We're going to clobber the English so hard they'll know who the Argentines...