Word: wallops
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Could there possibly be a tinier or more innocent-seeming measurement than the millijoule? The unit of energy denotes roughly the wallop packed by a dime dropped on a table from a height of 2 in. But as the National Transportation Safety Board revealed in hearings held in Baltimore last week, minuscule can mean sinister. Calmly, patiently, safety-board explosion expert Merritt Birky explained that a spark carrying one-quarter millijoule of energy was all that was necessary to ignite the contents of the 12,890-gal. central fuel tank of TWA Flight 800 in 1996 off Long Island...
...reaction to the failure of his last campaign. After an early spurt in last year's Republican primaries, Forbes was forced out of the race in part because he was indifferent to the party's powerful Christian Coalition wing. At one point, remembered by campaign chairman Malcolm Wallop as "that big catastrophe in Iowa," Forbes took off after the organization for falsely painting him as pro-abortion rights. "The Christian Coalition does not speak for most Christians," he said...
...When you're blind with anger or exasperation, you grab the nearest item of modular meanness. Of course, not all coolster coinages are overtly fightin' words. Indeed, some affect affectlessness: Same old, same old; Blah blah blah; Yadda yadda yadda. But given the right nuances, indifference can pack a wallop: Yadda will outsnide blah, for instance but wither before the passive-aggressive champ (and Bob Dole favorite), Whatever...
That leaves No. 12 Harvard still undefeated (11-0, 4-0 Ivy) and with the realization that it can wallop schools from all over the country, not just in the Northeast...
With another crushing victory--this time a 5-0 wallop of Boston College--Harvard looked as if it was not to be touched. Both junior Gabriela Hricko and sophomore Ivy Wang disposed of their opponents...