Word: wallops
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...selected national champions before they played a single game. It was a burden that even Navy's powerful line and great backfield could not carry: they bowed twice, on flukes and fumbles, to North Carolina Pre-Flight and to Georgia Tech. Then they came back to wallop Pennsylvania, 26-to-0. Last week at Baltimore, Navy's big guns poured broadside after broadside into unbeaten Notre Dame. Final score: Navy 32, Notre Dame...
...fighting lines. The longer the blow is delayed, the longer Hitler will have to scrape up and train his ersatz divisions, to toughen his defenses in depth. On the other hand, a real breakthrough might tear the present front hopelessly open, might furnish the momentum for the knockout wallop in the west...
...variations, the ball-handling quarterback forms the stem of the T, the other three backs the top crossbar. By any name, its razzle-dazzle pattern of spinners, flankers, man-in-motion, dive-tackle plays pack a wallop that makes scores and delights the fans...
...John L. Lewis still packs a wallop. His luxurious mane is streaked with grey; he is still saddened by the death two years ago of his wife Myrta; he has given up smoking, and now just chews cigars down to two-inch butts. But his vocabulary is still full of sound & fury, his anger still as righteous as Jere miah's, his hold on the United Mine Workers still complete...
Again the Luftwaffe. U.S. medium bombers hit oil dumps in France near Chartres. Argentan and Cerences. The R.A.F.'s new Typhoons, firing rockets that hit with the wallop of a six-inch naval shell, blasted storage tanks southwest of Rouen. The biggest European air combat since D-day was stirred up late in the week when 1,100 U.S. heavy bombers and 750 fighter escorts flew over Central Germany and attacked a string of industrial targets, including eleven refineries and synthetic oil plants grouped around Leipzig...