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Word: wallops (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Old Enough to Win | 8/18/1952 | See Source »

...assault charge. As for Pearson, whose spaniel-like manner is in contrast with his terrier-type reporting, he got some sound advice from his cook, Margaret Brown. Advised Margaret: grab your assailant by the ears and pull his head down before he can get in the first wallop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Mayflower Punch | 6/30/1952 | See Source »

Switzer's storybook wallop took away some of the brilliance of the pitching battle waged by the Crimson's Pat Groper and Tuft's Dave Lincoln. The two had allowed only one run asperse in the first 12 frames with Groper pitching 11 consecutive scoreless innings after a shaky start. ab p h po a o Smith 6 1 2 1 1 0 Robinson, rf 4 0 1 1 0 0 Johnson 5 0 1 18 1 0 Walsh (C),c 5 1 1 9 0 0 Akillian 4 0 0 2 0 0 AlDonelat...

Author: By David L. Halberstam, | Title: Switzer's Two Out Double Gives Baseball Team 3-2 Extra Inning Win Over Jumbos | 5/23/1952 | See Source »

...views of Mr. George F. Kennan [TIME, Sept. 17] pack the realistic wallop that somehow should be roundhoused to the chin of the formulators of our foreign policy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 8, 1951 | 10/8/1951 | See Source »

...picture is also a decided step forward for Director Joseph Losey, who made the raggedly effective The Lawless. Here, with a feeling for understatement as well as wallop, he shows more assured control of a naturalistic style that makes his best scenes look as if they had been caught by a candid camera...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Picture, Jun. 4, 1951 | 6/4/1951 | See Source »

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