Word: walloper
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Physicists have long known that raindrops-at high speeds-pack a dangerous wallop. But their effect on aircraft remained mainly a theoretical problem until jets started flying at the speed of sound. After passing through rain squalls at a supersonic clip, new jet fighters returned to base peppered with pits and abrasions. U.S. Air Force engineers have now begun to reckon with rain...
...Chesterfields and National Bohemian, Valley Forge and Hamm's beer. Beer and cigarettes are today as much a part of the league and the national game as bat and ball. Few announcers call a home run a home run: it is a "Ballantine blast" or a "White Owl wallop." Sponsors have not only moved in on the game itself, they have also lined up pre-game and post-game programs-mostly interviews with players. In Chicago, there are at least three such radio & TV shows before the game gets started. Last week Outfielder Ralph Kiner, speaking for the Chicago...
...does not muster enough sex-and-sadism scenes to outfit a single chapter of many historicals. He simply tells a fine story full of color and action, informed with a sense of history as pervasive as it is unobtrusive. Professors trying to explain how the Turks were able to wallop the Christian armies of Byzantium could do much worse than assign The Lady for Ransom...
...flat as his turnpike. He was overconfident, started too late, and let the Democrats gobble up most of the best radio and television time. When he did get on TV he looked and sounded much like Frank Smith, Sergeant Friday's deadpan Dragnet partner. Troast suffered his roundest wallop early in October, when newspapers broke the story that Troast had asked New York's Tom Dewey to commute the sentence of Labor Extortionist Joey...
...third great evil, says Hutchins, is the concept of education as a means of furthering this or that social doctrine. Hutchins uses the same paddle to wallop both John Dewey and T. S. Eliot, who espoused opposed educational philosophies. Dewey held that education should be used to further social reform. Eliot, while disapproving of "reconstructionalism," is just as bad, Hutchins says, because he proclaims that "education should help to preserve the class and select the elite...