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...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...
Nourished by a generous soil and a benign climate, this open-toed, pastel empire last week beat with a great hum-thrumming vitality. On Wilshire Boulevard, rivet guns prattled into the fresh steel of new office buildings. The reiterated whop of the hammered nail rang out in a 6,000-house development on San Fernando farmland, in a 17,000-house subdivision in the tawny hills 40 miles to the southwest in Palos Verdes-and wherever bulldozers sliced down citrus groves to make room for more. From the swarms of workers in electronics and aircraft plants came one big, tumultuous...
When the haughty Duchess of Cleveland, another of the King's mistresses, put on airs with her baseborn rival, Nell gave her a friendly whop on the shoulder, and remarked philosophically that "persons of one trade loved not one another." And one day, when popular hostility to Rome was at its height, Nelly's coach was mobbed by Whigs, who thought it carried the King's Catholic mistress, the Duchess of Portsmouth. Never at a loss, Nell stuck her head out of the window and bellowed: "Pray, good people, be civil. I am the Protestant whore...
...going whop to the office and blooie...