Word: wallop
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...Lady Engineers, remembering their easy win over Harvard last Saturday, kept their strategy of deep cross-court spikes and heavy blocking at the not. But in Monday's practice, Altman altered the Crimson defense to prepare for MIT's powerful spikes that packed an unforgotten wallop last weekend...
...troops. Orrin Hatch of Utah, who was on the campaign trail with Reagan at the time, and Paul Laxalt of Nevada were hurriedly flown back to Washington on an Air Force jet. Interior Secretary James Watt was dispatched to Oregon to handle a speaking engagement for Malcolm Wallop so that the Wyoming Senator could return to the capital. Reagan called nearly 20 Senators...
...become a traditional thing: The Harvard men's soccer team comes steaming out of training camp to wallop a less-talented MIT squad in an opening match. Yesterday's game followed the annual blueprint, as the booters used two carry goals to raze the Engineers 3-0 at the Business School field...
...happens that Larry Holmes is the undefeated heavyweight champion of the known (nonmovie) world, Gerry Cooney is the unbeaten No. 1 contender with an unknown wallop, and they are fighting each other this Friday night in a small ring out behind a large gambling lor for $20 million. Including ancillary payoffs, there may be as much as $50 million involved all around. The eyes of 32,000 people will glisten in the ring lights, and the blood of 2.5 million others will heat up in closed-circuit theaters, and much of the country, and some of the world, will...
...passions and away a throne. "Look," cries John at one point, cowering away from Richard. "He's got a knife!" "A knife," his mother screams back, "Of course he has knife! We all have knives! It's 1183 and we're barbarians!" For barbarians, the Plantagenets pack in impressive wallop to the modern sensibility. Were they subtle and sophisticated, we might not thrill...