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Word: walloper (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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...

Author: By Robert P. Marshall jr., | Title: Soccer Team Faces Lions In Initial Ivy Test Today | 10/7/1966 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Joseph A. Kanon, | Title: Grendel, Fedora, and a Big Fat Hit: William Alfred is Still 'Just Folks' | 7/5/1966 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Red China: Peking Opera | 5/20/1966 | See Source »

...complete reversal of the Yale match last week, Harvard golfers won two matches on the 18th hole and one on the 19th to wallop powerful Princeton, 5-2, and finish up with a winning season...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Golfers Crush Princeton, Close Year With 8-7 Mark | 5/19/1966 | See Source »

...humor that mark his opinions on nearly everything else. It is easy to see why the press has taken to Alfred for h 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 work "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...

Author: By Joseph A. Kanon, | Title: Grendel, Fedora, and a Big Fat Hit: William Alfred is Still 'Just Folks' | 5/19/1966 | See Source »

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