Word: walloper
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Even mightier than the 8-in. gun, though with a shorter reach (14.3 miles), is the 240-mm. howitzer. These behemoths are used in groups for long-range destruction. They are also used to back up the lighter fire power of infantry division artillery. Their backing is a wallop. The 240-mm. howitzer lobs a projectile weighing...
...disks harder & harder to get. Many albums of the highest musical value had disappeared entirely from the market. The reason for the shortage was not James Caesar Petrillo's recording ban (TIME, June 22, 1942). It was a combination of wartime circumstances hitting the recording industry a mighty wallop...
...this one is definitely worth seeing. Whether or not one likes the picture depends largely upon his temperament and mood at the time he sees it. To the extreme cynic it would seem unduly emotional. The naive but delicate might enjoy it exceedingly. And it doesn't pack the wallop that "Gunga Din" or "Roy Ralston--Cowboy...
...approaching sound of a motorcar was heard in the drive. From this chariot there stepped swiftly and lightly none other than the gifted wife of Sir John Lavery. 'Painting! But what are you hesitating about? Let me have a brush-the big one.' Splash into the turpentine, wallop into the blue and the white, frantic flourish on the palette . . . and then several large, fierce strokes and slashes of blue on the absolutely cowering canvas. Anyone could see that it could not hit back. . . . The sickly inhibitions rolled away. I seized the largest brush and fell upon my victim...
...General, a qualified parachutist who has absorbed many a hard wallop, was getting back his wind and consciousness. He sat up, looked around. Presently some medical officers came up on the double and took him off, grinning and protesting, to an evacuation hospital set up in tents a few miles away...