Word: clobbers
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...that only the chairman speaks for the company. In one of his few appearances, presiding at the 1962 annual meeting for cold-plagued Arthur Homer, Martin told newsmen that the steel industry needed no price rise. When U.S. Steel boosted prices, President Kennedy used Martin's words to clobber the industry...
There are some individuals who pursue only unattainable girls, worship the New York Mets, and root for the Indians to clobber the cowboys; upon such a masochistic foundation was built the personality of the fan who rooted for the basketball team and blithely ignored the myriad of successful Harvard winter sports teams...
Grubbing for Gold. The Russians were hesitant to submit an official or der, wanted advance assurance from Washington that it would be approved. President Kennedy was reluctant to commit himself until he got assurance from congressional conservatives that they would not clobber him at some future date for giving aid and comfort to the enemy. Compounding confusion, Premier Khrushchev made it sound as if he no longer wanted the wheat by declaring: "If we use bread economically, the resources we now have will be sufficient for the normal supply of the population." Taking Khrushchev's words to mean that...
...second fighter with a fair chance to clobber Clay is powerful "Cat" Williams whom Liston terms, "the second-hardest-punching heavyweight." Sonny KO'd the cat twice, and to make him do it again would only belabor the issue, but a Williams-Clay contest might be another story. The mild blows of Henry Cooper deposited Cassius on the canvas for eight seconds in London last winter, and anything Cooper can do Williams can do better...
Unpredictable as ever, the baseball team bounced back from its 7-5 loss at Princeton last weekend to clobber Brandeis, 25-3. Irrepressible Crimson sluggers worked their way through three Brandeis pitchers, and came up with a phenomenal 14-run hitting spree in the seventh inning...