Word: wallops
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...complete reversal of the Yale match last week, Harvard golfers won two matches on the 18th hole and one on the 19th to wallop powerful Princeton, 5-2, and finish up with a winning season...
...humor that mark his opinions on nearly everything else. It is easy to see why the press has taken to Alfred for h is, as his Irish ancestors would say, a "grand guy." His good taste is always tinged with a humorous saltiness that seems to deal pretension a wallop. He is a native Brooklynite who doesn't hesitate to use the work "kid" but who is a recognized scholar in English, a playwright who isn't concerned with finding his own identity because he's too busy writing about those of his characters, a celebrity who laughs...
Almost as light as a highball tumbler, silent as a hummingbird's flight-yet with twice the wallop of a .45-the Gyrojet rocket handgun sounds like the secret agent's dream. Costing only $1 to massproduce, with a mechanism so simple and rugged that it can be fired under water and requires practically no maintenance, the gun-as advertised-could prove an equally deadly weapon for combat troops...
...Commander in Chief of the Pacific Fleet, Nimitz set out first to restore the Navy's shattered nerve-and then to restore the Navy. "I have complete confidence in you men," he briskly assured the ashen-faced staff at Pearl Harbor. "We've taken a terrific wallop, but I have no doubts as to the ultimate outcome." In less than two years, U.S. shipyards enabled him to begin to fight on even terms. In the meantime, perilously outnumbered, Nimitz played a brilliant game of parry and thrust...
...newly developed recoilless pistol that fires a tiny rocket with twice the wallop of a .45, is inexpensive to produce (as low as 850 each) and simple to operate. Loaded with six 13-mm. rounds, each an inch and a half long, the gun ignites the rocket's solid fuel to fire the projectile toward the target...