Word: wallop
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...light up the scene for the real workmen. These were pilots of Fairey Swordfish torpedo-carrying planes, ancient-looking single-engine contraptions with enough wire between their wings to rig a hen yard. But the Swordfish, like the U. S. Navy's Douglas TBD-1, pack a terrible wallop between their nonretractable wheels. Each carrying an 18-inch torpedo, they came in low over the water, bearing down on a congregation of Fascist ships numbering well over...
...bleeding blind man. While he stumbled and groped, mumbling "If I could only see-" Zivic slashed him with savage rights and lefts. Through five of the most brutal rounds ever seen in the Garden, Armstrong took his bloody punishment. In the 15th, more from a shove than a wallop, he toppled to the floor-just saved from a knockout by the final bell...
Each Stuka carries four 110-lb. or smaller bombs in racks on the wings, but its big wallop is packed under the fuselage: a 1,100-lb. or 550-lb. bomb on a rack that can be extended as the dive is begun. Reason for extension: bombs released in a dive pick up speed faster than the ship, have been known to poke their noses into the whirling prop and blow dive bomber and crew to bits. The extension guides the bomb out of the propeller...
When Medicine Show states plain facts, it packs a real wallop. When it invents "dramatic situations," it is less convincing, and a great deal less dramatic...
...against competition. The $16,000,000 issue was sold at $99.43 to Kuhn, Loeb's syndicate. Kuhn, Loeb's bid, made before the issue was thrown open to competition, was better than Halsey, Stuart's offer. Wall Street joyfully ticketed the case as a hard wallop to competition. It showed that "noncompetitors" can and will make bids as high as competitors...