Word: clobbers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Prose commands their minds, but poetry envelops their senses. They are aware of hard, sharp words that can clobber the emotions, that communicate one-to-one, man-to-man. Says Lowell: "The strength of the novel is that it tells a story and has real people. But so many novels have been written that when you pick one up you feel you've read it before. The problem with poetry is that it doesn't necessarily have the connection with life and can be rather obscure. But poetry has the wonderful short thrust. By the time...
...platoon in the mountain massif to the rear of the Air Cav's An Khe headquarters. In a tin box on one of the Communist bodies was a Chinese mortar sight, on others a compass, quadrant and binoculars: ominous evidence that the North Vietnamese might be preparing to clobber An Khe with mortar fire in preparation for an assault. Into the mountains swept chopper loads of Air Cavalrymen to "spoil" the Red attack before it could be mounted...
...Harvard track team slipped and shivered through the motions, but that was enough to clobber Brown 113 to 40 last Saturday. The Crimson won fourteen of the eighteen events, sweeping five of them...
Captain Bob Damus set the mood in the first sabre bout whitewashing Steve Mayberg, 5-0. After losing the first touch. Paul Profeta followed with five straight touches to clobber Tom Edwards, 5-1. Sophomore Bob Barnard completed the first-round sabre, sweep by edging Steve Getman...
...possibility of creating some kind of student disciplinary committee, F. Skiddy von Stade, dean of Freshmen, said that he didn't think the undergraduates would allow it. "It has been my experience that any kind of peer group disciplinary system is apt to clobber the student much harder than the bureaucracy." Dean Ford agreed that "students hang each other amazingly cheerfully...