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Frazier can still shake the building. When he spars with his sons, Marvis and Hector, he looks old and slow. Like a gingerbread man, he has plumped out (to 229 lbs.). But the whomp he fetches the big bag can still tingle a spine. "At all times," he instructs the boys gently, "try to take their heads...
...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...