Word: clobberings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...study by the Zurich company showed that women are less costly to insure than men. While the women have more accidents per mile, their smashups are less serious and 20% less costly to settle. Women tend to clobber fence posts and rear bumpers; men often hit other cars head-on and at higher speeds. A separate survey by the World Health Organization made similar findings. Says Robert Pansard, a French safety official who participated in the WHO study: "Although women are perhaps more emotional, they do not possess the drive for power which often becomes aggressiveness in male drivers." They...
Anglo-Saxons are Germanic peoples; Angles and Saxons came to England to clobber the native inhabitants (Celtic), many of whom fled to the mountainous sections of Wales, Scotland and to Ireland and to the Isle...
...Marvin telling Roger Ebert, film critic of the Chicago Sun-Times, how to handle an interview with one of those tough-cookie Hollywood types like-well, like Lee Marvin. "It's the only way to do an interview. Hit them straight on, or the s.o.b.s will clobber you every time. Come on now: 'Is it true?' Ask me something, 'Is it true?' " So the critic did, asking whether Marvin was the highest-paid actor in Hollywood. "That's it. Not a great question, but a good question. No, it isn't true. Paul...
...beating of a V.C., Reporter Janssen protests, "There's such a thing as due process." "Out here," sneers Wayne, "due process is a bullet." Built on the primitive lines of a standard western, Berets even has the South Vietnamese talking like movie Sioux: "We build many camps, clobber many...
...they played on, as one knew they would, and the Crimson went on to clobber B.U., 8-0, Saturday at Cumnock Field in the Harvard home opener...