Word: walloper
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...louder and louder. The whistle wails, and the monstrous noise comes on and on and on and on, straight at the listener. His eyes pop open, his hands grip the arms of his chair in sweaty terror. His eyebrows shoot up past his hairline. As the final shattering wallop thunders in his head, the train runs right smack over him and he topples backward in a shuddering trance...
...Breed. Yesterday's sports sections bristled with evasions of perfectly useful words: four-ply wallop for homerun, apple for baseball, henhouse hoist for foul ball. When athletes were injured, claret flowed, not blood. On one occasion, the Herald Tribune's Sports Editor Stanley Woodward, outraged at receipt of a story in which some ballplayer "belted" a homerun, whipped off his own belt, waved it before the eyes of the transgressor, and bellowed: "Did you ever see anyone hit a baseball with one of these...
Voodoo & Vulnerability. Mauldin packs a wallop that can be absorbed in seconds-and seconds, as he well knows, are all his work will get from the Post-Dispatch's readers (circ. 406,947) and the other 10 million in his 99-newspaper syndication. He understands even better-as many of his colleagues seem to forget -that editorial cartooning is essentially an aggressive art, aimed at the belly rather than the brain. Mauldin never defends; he attacks. The difference between an editorial cartoon and the editorial across the page, he says, is "the difference between a sergeant's whistle...
...week later the friend's wife announces that she is pregnant, the hero is the fa ther, and they had better "bring it off" damn quick. An amateurish abortion at tempt fails. The husband twigs. His broth er and another big swaddie catch Arthur in the dark and wallop the living tabs off him. But a week later the young dog is out of bed again and rolling all over the parlor floor with that pretty little tuffey-apple he met in the bar. Will he marry her? Maybe. Will he stop fighting? "Ever see where not fighting gets...
...move against the Murchisons was another round in the fight for control of I.D.S. (TIME, Jan. 4), may well be the opening wallop in a new battle for control of Alleghany Corp. Both struggles grew out of the proxy fight of Alleghany Corp., then controlled by the late Robert R. Young and Allan Kirby, for control of the New York Central Railroad. An Alleghany financial adviser in the fight was Randolph Phillips, 49, who subsequently fell out with Young and Kirby and the Murchisons, who had helped Alleghany win the Central. Later, Alleghany sold the Murchisons its controlling stock...