Word: clobbers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...single week, ran off nine victories in a row. Yankee bats might turn cold again, but there was still the Yankees' subtle pressure. "You look at the Yankee line-up," said a rival manager "and you say there's no reason why we shouldn't clobber these guys. Hell, they had to score four runs in the eighth inning to beat West Point in an exhibition game. Then you get in that Yankee Stadium, and you see those Yankee uniforms, and you say, 'What are we doing here? We just don't belong in this...
...hunt and kill, but they know it already. But you can't teach them any tricks." The seagulls have turned out to be the most fierce; Berwick and an assistant have been badly pecked. Berwick has taught the gulls to fly at an actor's head, clobber him with a wing, and circle back for another pass (or a retake). But his favorite is a crow named Nosey, which he has trained to fetch his car keys, bring the morning paper, even put a cigarette in his mouth and light it for him. Berwick can start Nosey half...
...target has been selected, the bomber's crew will crank the proper instructions into the computers carried by the four Skybolts. At the press of a button, the birds will be on the wing, heading in salvo for a single target or spreading out on individual courses to clobber widely separated cities...
...first basketball game, 32-75, but Harvard will come back and beat Columbia in the second, 75-67; the track teams will beat Army by one point; the wrestling team will be embarrassed by Columbia; the hockey team will beat Cornell, 5-1; and the swimming team will clobber Cornell...
Damn the Expense. Bankrolled by West Coast Industrialist Norton Simon, whose Hunt Foods & Industries, Inc., controls 43% of McCall Corp.'s stock, McCall's is out to clobber the Journal-and damn the expense. Thanks to its enormous magazine job-printing plant in Dayton, the parent corporation stays a million or so dollars in the black. But McCall's has been a money loser...