Word: glopping
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...sergeant's life looks like a piece of cake, all right, but then the scriptwriter starts to apply the Hollywood icing, and what glop it is. The sergeant has hardly anything to do with ordinary enlisted men, spends most of his time giving unsolicited advice to colonels and generals, who seem enormously impressed and grateful. The C.O. of his squadron, a lieutenant colonel (Efrem Zimbalist Jr.), falls in love with the sergeant's daughter (Natalie Wood), but the sarge does not think the colonel is good enough for his girl. So one day at the base he chews...
...phonetic change from the "s" to the "sh" sound is contemporary and popular as shmmo, schlamiel, sham. Synonyms are glop, shmo, jerk, goof, sad sack, "Marty," poorish...
Professor Schmidt threw in with the ice pack. Working fast, his remaining 71 men and women lugged food, scientific instruments, tents, clothing, records and baby on to the ice. Most important, they got off a little radio sending set with batteries. With a huge glop the Chelyuskin followed the chief steward to the bottom. Even before they set up their tents, the Russians radioed the bad news out. From North Cape, Siberia, 155 mi. away, 60 dog teams mushed off to Professor Schmidt's aid through a screaming blizzard. Rescue planes waited in their hangars for the blizzard...