Word: wallops
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...this conference, electrified doctors, grabbed headlines and changed the way doctors think about treating cancer. Because Gleevec was exquisitely targeted to interrupt a specific step in the cancer cell's growth process, it heralded a new era of kinder, gentler treatments that would pack all the anti-cancer wallop of chemotherapy without the toxic side effects...
...though at the end, Throttlebottom does say to Wintergreen, in a neat presentiment of Maureen Dowd, "You can be the President and I'll go back to Vice.") But the pertinence of the show's disdain for the motives of the President, the Congress and the press carried a wallop then, and retain a sting today...
...tough for today's 24/7 Drudge-CNN-Huffington Post grazers to understand the journalistic wallop that Anderson's "Washington Merry-Go-Round" column packed in its heyday. Appearing in close to 1,000 U.S. newspapers a generation ago, Anderson drew readers with his decades of scoops: he reported Washington's tilt away from India and toward Pakistan (it earned him a 1972 Pulitzer). He established a link between the Nixon Justice Department's settling of an antitrust case against ITT and the conglomerate's $400,000 pledge to the 1972 Republican Convention. He revealed key elements of the Reagan Administration...
...Denon's new S-301 is a 2.1 home-theater system-in addition to its combination DVD player and audio amplifier, it has just two speakers and a subwoofer. It's compact, but packs a wallop, with special Dolby technology built in to ensure vivid surround sound on DVD movies. One of its key features is its iPod connection...
...children of Harry Potter - the readers of his books, the viewers of his movies - are growing up with him. Many, perhaps millions of them were six or eight when the first wallop of Harrymania struck the U.S. in the summer of 1999. They are tweeners or a little older now, within cracking-voice shouting distance of the young wizard?s 16 years - in the sixth book, The Half-Blood Prince, published this summer - or 14 years, his age in the new movie version of the fourth installment, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire...