Word: clobbering
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...haired and Irish, you know." After swearing out an assault-and-battery complaint against Susan, Jil, whose good fight had done her movie career no harm, purred testily: "I don't want this bad publicity. But why should I sit back and let this woman clobber me?" Before he galloped off to a hideout, Cowboy Barry drawled fair-and-square: "Look, I'm in the middle of this...
...picture of graceful perfection. If Willie and his teammate Ruben Gomez (who pitches for Santurce) found anything different about Caribbean baseball, it was the ball itself. Much more lively than the ball big leaguers are used to, the Puerto Rican special is a real rabbit ball. Batters can clobber it; pitchers learn how to throw and duck if they want to hang onto their heads...
...Chicago last week. U.S. sports editors made up a list of the ten tiredest cliches used in sports writing. The winners, in order: "mentor" (usually "cagy" or "genial"), "inked pact," "pay dirt," "circuit clout," "gonfalon," "roaring back or out or from behind." "outclassed but game" (with numerous variations), "clobber," "gridders" and "cage or cagers...
...Army and Navy were on the warpath again. Object of the game: to hurl a 5-oz. India rubber ball into a 6-ft.-square net, using a webbed hickory stick as a combination scoop and sling. If a member of one of the ten-man teams happened to clobber a rival with a stick, or send him sprawling on his face, it was all part of the game. The stakes of honor were considerable, involving not only the traditional Army-Navy rivalry but also the national collegiate title. Army, favored to win the game, needed a victory to wind...
...Wise? The left-wing Laborite firebrands of Aneurin Bevan saw the news as a made-in-America chance to clobber both the U.S. and the Conservative government. "If you want to go to war," cried Bevan dramatically, "why not say so?" But this time the hostility did not stop at the left. Winston Churchill, embarrassed and angered by the U.S. failure to consult him in advance of the air raids, made only fitful attempts to douse the diplomatic blaze, and in the main debate he pointedly took no part. Quiet, colorless Clement Attlee, no enemy...