Word: walloper
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...bleeding blind man. While he stumbled and groped, mumbling "If I could only see-" Zivic slashed him with savage rights and lefts. Through five of the most brutal rounds ever seen in the Garden, Armstrong took his bloody punishment. In the 15th, more from a shove than a wallop, he toppled to the floor-just saved from a knockout by the final bell...
Each Stuka carries four 110-lb. or smaller bombs in racks on the wings, but its big wallop is packed under the fuselage: a 1,100-lb. or 550-lb. bomb on a rack that can be extended as the dive is begun. Reason for extension: bombs released in a dive pick up speed faster than the ship, have been known to poke their noses into the whirling prop and blow dive bomber and crew to bits. The extension guides the bomb out of the propeller...
When Medicine Show states plain facts, it packs a real wallop. When it invents "dramatic situations," it is less convincing, and a great deal less dramatic...
...against competition. The $16,000,000 issue was sold at $99.43 to Kuhn, Loeb's syndicate. Kuhn, Loeb's bid, made before the issue was thrown open to competition, was better than Halsey, Stuart's offer. Wall Street joyfully ticketed the case as a hard wallop to competition. It showed that "noncompetitors" can and will make bids as high as competitors...
...Idea was that if the earth, in its revolution around the sun, was actually traveling through a sea of ether, the effect of ether-drag should perceptibly slow up one of the beams. But the two beams finished th-e race practically neck & neck. This looked like a mortal wallop for the ether theory. Einstein's Relativity theories (1905-15) seemed another deadly stroke, for they dispensed with the ether as unnecessary. In the relativistic view there is no such thing as absolute motion, therefore no need of a fixed frame of reference, such as the ether. It became...