Word: lash
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...Herbert, a Negro employe of the New York Curb Exchange, whirled around in the Millrose 600 so rapidly that he left behind two national champions and the 800-metre Olympic champion, Negro John Woodruff of University of Pittsburgh. Catapulted into national publicity when one of them beat Don Lash, world record holder, in the second fastest outdoor two-mile race ever run in the U. S., at the Sugar Bowl Games at New Orleans last month, the arrival of the Rideout Twins for the northern winter track season sent researchers scurrying for data on identical twins in sport...
...That's crazy as hell!" was the Rideouts' reply last week to stories that they somehow tricked Don Lash at New Orleans. Racing on boards for the first time at the Millrose Games last week, Blaine Rideout ran off the inside of the track on the fifth lap of the 1,000-yd. run, pitched headlong, did not finish. Both Rideouts ran in the two-mile an hour later. Blaine fought with Lash for second place for 16 laps while Indiana's Tommy Deckard built up an unbeatable lead. Getting a pain in his side, Blaine fell...
Above the broad Tappan Zee, above Haverstraw, above the ledge-hugging concrete strip of U. S. Route 9 W rises a palisade actually called High Tor. Storms lash it furiously. And Playwright Anderson believes that the airplane beacon on its top was twice bowled over by stormy Dutchmen marooned for three centuries on High Tor, waiting for a ship to take them back to Amsterdam from the dark side of the world...
...Organization of America, sought out Director Reinhardt in Paris and proposed to produce in Manhattan a Biblical superspectacle "that would also constitute a stirring commentary on current events." It would provide a symbol of solidarity around which to rally world Jewry to the defense of fellow Jews suffering the lash of Nazi persecution. Director Reinhardt, who had his huge indoor Miracle ten years behind him, his huge outdoor A Midsummer Night's Dream one year in the future, agreed to take on the job. He called in Novelist Werfel, who was completing his best-selling Forty Days of Musa...
...well. . . . She talks garrulously, but on the whole pretty sensibly. She is very open to instruction. We shall improve her. She dresses badly. . . . She has enough money to be quite independent. She rules me as only American women rule men, and I cower before her. Lord! how she would lash me if she read the above description...