Word: whomp
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...slow down. I just live too fast. My father died at 36. His father died at 36. And his father died at 32. I'm in a little better shape than my father, and I can do a lot in 16 years." With that, Pitcher Denny McLain goes whomp, whomp on the pedals ?and the sweet organ music floats past...
...elephants, others drifted down the Congo, past the snapping jaws of crocodiles and the whalelike surfacing of rhinos. Birds and flowers sang in one enchanted room; a land-fast 80-ft. rocket took off for the moon in simulated flight. Yet in all the gaiety and glare, in the whomp of bands and the bray of a calliope, only one elegiac sign reminded pleasure seekers that the man was no more who created this fairyland: the flag was at half-staff...
...with loyalist troops at the national cemetery. Snipers killed a marine near the Hotel Embajador, on the border of the supposedly safe International Zone; a paratroop lieutenant was killed and seven men were wounded in a vicious north-south crossfire near the supply corridor. The rebels even managed to whomp two mortar rounds smack into the front yard of Marine headquarters...
...Lema, 29, who hardly qualifies as a hardship case ($67,112 last year), won the $5,800 Crosby first prize. But then there was Juan ("Chi Chi") Rodriguez, 28, 120 Ibs. of sugar cane from Puerto Rico, who used to play with ladies' clubs. All he did was whomp everybody for $7,500 in San Francisco's Lucky International. Along the way, Rodriguez belted one drive 290 yds. and announced: "I was playing for position, not for distance...
...Galahad. Wham! Whomp! Thunk! Glunk! The Kid in the white satin trunks with the shamrock-green piping is down. The ringside crowd is up and roaring. "Sev-hin, A-yut, Nigh-yen"-the Kid's up again. He's bleeding at the mouth. How much more of this grueling punishment can the Kid take? Well, say another 15 or 20 solid punches right in the kisser. But don't sell the Kid short. He has a heart of gold and a head of lead. When his eyes begin to look like two fried eggs...