Word: clobbers
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...level of discourse. That is the level on which the simplistic Wallace functions best. The lesson offered by Wallace is clear enough: When voters are distressed, either the more orthodox candidates must find convincing ways to attack the causes, or George Corley Wallace will continue to win votes and clobber politicians who "can't park their bicycles straight...
Trailing 2-0 going into the tenth frame, the Crimson bowling team knocked down 23 pins to clobber the Pomeroy Tiddlywinks and Bowling Team, 23-2, and continue its domination of collegiate candlepin action...
...mostly late-model Soviet jets to support them. Against this force the Israelis have a regular army of 75,000, plus 300,000 combat-ready reservists, at least 1,080 tanks and 368 warplanes. Most Egyptian military men concede that in a fourth round of fighting, the Israelis would clobber them once again but probably at a great cost to Israel...
...most inflexible institution is the dictionary. Particularly in politics we are caught between the very rapid movement of the objective world and the relatively slow evolution of words and ideas used to describe what is going on. In the anxious discussion of today's youth culture, we clobber one another with anachronistic adjectives like permissive and repressive, which have no important objective referents in today's U.S. political scene. Our broadest terms-left, right and center-derive from the seating arrangement of the French Assembly in 1789; the terms made sense then, but do they now, when...
...exhibition game, Giant hurlers blew a five-run lead and suffered a shameful 8-7 loss to the University of Santa Clara. Two days later, the Giants wasted an eight-run advantage and lost 17-16 to the lowly San Diego Padres. Last week they even let a pitcher clobber them when Los Angeles' Claude Osteen rapped out two singles, a double and a homer to lead the Dodgers to a 19-3 slaughter...