Word: wallop
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...candid admission that the Eisenhower Administration is tailoring the nation's defense to budgetary cloth Engine Charlie added a reminder: with military technology speeding ahead (see below), a shrinkage in manpower does not necessarily mean a weakening of military wallop. "Numbers alone don't tell you the story," he said, "either for them...
...Biff! Bang! Wallop!" In search of a hero for his sensational novel of the 19205, Montparnos, which established the claim of Montparnasse as a rip-roaring Bohemia to rival the prewar Montmartre, M.G.M. uncovered such unknowns as Amedeo Modigliani and Utrillo, recounts how on their first meeting the two great painters exchanged coats as a token of mutual admiration. Then one said: "You are the world's greatest painter...
...world's greatest-Reports M. G.-M.: "Biff! Bang! And the fight started. They made it up in a nearby bistro. There they consumed a large number of bottles of wine, and exchanged coats several more times . . . Biff! Bang! Wallop! And they were at it again, landing up in the gutter, where they went to sleep, and woke up at dawn to find that they had been robbed...
Slow Strangulation. He put a wallop into his delivery, clenched his left hand into a veiny fist as he warned that without U.S. military aid, free countries bordering on the Communist world would, under Communist pressures, "suffer a slow strangulation quite as fateful as sudden aggression." Going it alone without the mutual-security program, he said, the U.S. would need to step up its draft calls and spend billions more for arms...
...into the painstakingly mapped passes and defiles of the nearby Alps with astonishing mobility. With the 200,000-man NATO-commanded Italian army moving in to drive an oncoming enemy into a pocket, SETAF efficiently unlimbers its cranes, trucks and crews, loads its rockets and missiles, releases its wallop with discriminating accuracy...