Word: whomp
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...controversy over whether a curveball's arc was real or merely an optical illusion. Dean, professing ignorance of aerodynamics, merely stated, "If you put a man behind a tree and you put me on the other side of that tree, 60 feet, six inches away--well hell, I'll whomp him to death with an optical illusion." Kahn's book does the same--illusion or reality, its stories hit home...
...part of television's great fall season of sports and entertainment, the debates were also a kind of World Series. If so, compare the correct professionalism of the news correspondents in the debates with those sports commentators who whomp up any event, regale you with anecdotes and pay maudlin visits to the victors' dressing-room celebrations to fawn on the owners. In this chilled televised courtroom, the reporters were the prosecutors. Throughout the debates, a vital distance between news coverage and promotion was still kept...
Purdy, who broke into the varsity hockey lineup this season, proved the sleeper in the linksters' win over Amherst and Tufts yesterday in the Crimson's opening dual match. The squad finished with a composite score of 386, good enough to whomp the Lord Jeffs by 24 strokes, while Tufts straggled in with...
...when WHOMP...
...least if you did not, as you will probably get the worst beating you have had this year. You can probably pick up some good pointers on how to play football and we will show you the meaning of DESIRE and DETERMINATION. We have the desire to whomp you, and we are determined to do it Saturday. You lucked out on us last year and we are going to make certain that it doesn't happen again...