Word: wallop
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Sensible Prentiss Brown would rather be a Mister than a Czar, and he believes the wheedle is better than the wallop. By last week he had made marked progress in converting OPA from a public-be-damned bureaucracy into a group of people who are trying to help the U.S. somehow live through...
...hours; half a dozen often bored in at a single bomber. Some of the Germans did insolent, casual "slow rolls" as they came in, wheeling their planes wing over wing and then straightening out to fire. Their daring and determination cost them dearly. The bombers (each carrying a tremendous wallop in thirteen .50-caliber machine guns) flew in close formation, which caught the Germans in murderous crossfire. The bomber crews claimed 44 German fighters certainly destroyed (six crashed. 23 fell in flames, 14 disintegrated in the air, one was abandoned by a parachuting German) plus 20 or more probables...
...Grand National except that there were no falls. It was like flying over England, only more beautiful. People on the ground seemed stunned by the great flock of Lancasters and the noise. We saw no fighters on the way, but a duck came through the windshield with a wallop. My front gunner's turret was filled with feathers and the hole in the windshield let in an awful draft." And so precise was the R.A.F. timing that the first planes hit Le Creusot at 6:09 and the last dumped its load seven minutes later...
WASHINGTON--President Roosevelt today sought from Congress an additional $17,579,311,253 to expand the nation's air power, and to care for swelling land forces, which, the Army said, are being trained to deliver a "victory wallop" throughout the world...
This difficult and ugly story packs a considerable wallop-thanks to the shrewd direction of Sam Wood and effective performances by his cast. Its ending, though overdramatic, does not detract from the atmosphere, mood and genuinely compassionate portrayal of life in a U.S. small town of not so long...