Word: wallop
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...Minuteman ICBMs, which can take off in 32 seconds, 54 Titan II missiles, which carry considerably more megatonnage than the smaller Minuteman, and 608 sub-borne Polarises-1,602 birds in all. With additions already under way, the flock will soon total 1,720 and pack a combined wallop equal to 1.8 billion tons of TNT, more than half a ton for every human being on earth. Nonetheless, the U.S. is planning yet another expansion of its missile arsenal...
Harvard has been near the top in offensive statistics for so long now that it is easy to forget that only last year the Crimson offense packed about as much wallop as orange pop. The transformation has been so stunning that the undergraduates who last fall were spinning "Yo-Yo must go" yo-yos are now speaking possessively of the Lambert Trophy...
...fast, skilled, but equally depthless Lions get off to an early lead it will be all over for the Crimson. But if someone like Scott Robertson were to break away for a leadoff goal for Harvard, the Cantabridgians would forget about their troubles and their changing systems and wallop Columbia...
...humor that mark his opinions on nearly everything else. It is easy to see why the press has taken to Alfred for he is, as his Irish ancestors would say, a "grand guy." His good taste is always tinged with a humorous saltiness that seems to deal pretension a wallop. He is a native Brooklynite who doesn't hesitate to use the word "kid" but who is a recognized scholar in English, a playwright who isn't concerned with finding his own identity because he's too busy writing about those of his characters, a celebrity who laughs...
...bomb was not H. Seismographs monitoring the Chinese test site in Sinkiang province indicated a wallop of only 130 kilotons. The Atomic Energy Commission found traces of lithium 6, a thermonuclear material right enough, but the major element in the explosion was enriched uranium-the same as in Peking's two earlier tests. China's first H-bomb will probably be a triple-stage fission-fusion-fission monster of the same "dirty" quality as the giant Khrushchevian 40-megaton bombs that were exploded prior to the 1963 test ban. Those bombs are too big to be delivered...