Word: wallops
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...interest per year on the initial outstanding debt of $1,000,000. The sale called for the principal to be paid off within five years. Normally, such an undertaking would require prodigious amounts of cash: annual payments of $175,000 for five years and then a liquidating wallop payout...
...Laugh It Off If You Can. At 21, he wrote the sprawling but remarkable Platonov, which turned up only long after his death, in the Soviet period. In his late twenties, he turned out Ivanov, a flawed but great and vastly underrated work capable of packing a tremendous wallop in performance; and the tentative, transitional The Wood Demon, which later also provided much of the plot of Uncle Vanya...
...tick. Birnbaum's own brand of ingenuity seems to lie with the quick double-entendre gag-vulgarity that goes against the grain of this particular musical. Just about everything the director does points at, rather than ignores, the show's leanly plotted and generally unfunny George's Abbott-Douglas Wallop book...
Emerald Isle-sure and it warms the cockles of your heart! A wallop of ice cream, a dollop of fudge sauce, a flurry of mint and cocoanut, a halo of whipped cream...
Putting on the Brakes. Though many economists and businessmen considered the drastic measure necessary to check the speed of economic expansion, it has several negative aspects-apart from the extra tax wallop. At a time when job opportunities for the poor must be broadened, unemployment may increase as a result of belt tightening by both Government and private enterprise. With contracts in the steel, shipping and aerospace industries due to expire in the next few months, a wave of serious strikes could brake the economy further. Nor is the rate of consumer-price increases likely to decline for several months...