Word: walloper
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...West's unredeemed pledge as no more than a cynical campaign trick. That feeling hurt De Gasperi in last month's election. Trieste is a symbol as compelling as reunification to Germans, or 54-40 to Americans of the 1840s. To Italians the word packs an emotional wallop out of all proportion to its economic importance...
Ernie Bock and his non-musical Pennsylvanians blasted through town last night on route to the NCAA tournament in Chicago. They paused long enough, however, to wallop the varsity basketball team, 77 to 49, and clinch the Eastern League title as well...
They played without both their first-string defensemen; they took the ice with the knowledge that they couldn't win the Pentagonal League title; they spotted Yale two first period goals--but the varsity hockey players roared back to score twice in each of the last two periods and wallop the Elis, 4 to 2, before a sellout crowd of howling Yalies Saturday night at the New Haven Arena...
...Shahn, 53, "protest painter," whose expressionism packs a wallop: Ave, Composition With Clarinets and Tin Horn, Epoch...
...best race time ever, 1/5 sec. better than his Santa Anita mark. A 19-to-20 odds-on favorite in the third heat, Sharp Note finally brought the crowd around to Bi's original conclusion. Lagging back in the field until the last turn, he again showed his wallop in the homestretch, beat Hit Song by two lengths, going away. Sharp Note's purse...