Word: whopping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Holy suffocation! A year between Barbra's shows filled with hours of operating rooms, court rooms, bar rooms, Batmobiles. Deliver me from the whop, smack and zap in the bat cave and let me suffocate in such appalling overcuteness as Barbra. If that hour of greatness was a myth, spare me the realities of "My Mother the Car," my wife the witch, my father the fugitive, and your reviews...
...Boulder, Colo. last week, Roger M. Gallet, a physicist for the National Bureau of Standards, exuberantly described the most dramatic experiment of his career. Said he: "It was like this: whop and then whop." Gallet's "whops" bade fair to change the scientific world's concept of radar and its potential...
...asked the performers to write on 20 cards "a noun or verb or combination of both with which they would care to associate themselves." When a performer shuffles the cards and finds himself confronted with "carry fish" and "hit piano strings," what would be more natural than to whop the piano with a frozen carp...