Word: whip
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harvard apparently loves the National Student Association. At any rate, it gives NSA over $1000 a year to maintain rapport with student organizations all over the nation and to whip up schemes like the DP program and the purchase card plan. Whether it likes the idea or not--and a segment of the paying population inevitably doesn't--Harvard is securely wedded...
...less tenable. At the Indian meeting the formation of a Far Eastern bloc was suggested. Though rejected, it was clear proof that Asiatic nations are prepared to organize to protect their interests. Continued Dutch action has become enormously dangerous by risking alienation of such a group. To crack the whip, Senator Brewster recommended last month that ECA aid be cut-off from any nation which disregards UN directives...
...Romance Languages Department, however, is significantly different from other language departments. The Department is in charge of no less than four languages. A survey on the order of English 1, therefore, would be quite difficult to whip up since it would have to reject more material than other survey courses and be a good deal more general. That is partly why the Romance Languages and Literatures Department is leery of handling such a survey. The course would have a distinctly limited value for the concentrator...
...February, 1938, when maids were getting 42 cents an hour and the local AF of L was preparing to whip together a nice little University union, a handful of men and women employees decided to found an independent labor organization. AF of L leaders laughed, but in the ensuing court fight, the Labor Relations Board granted the 18 hardy souls legal recognition. From that moment on, the employees union has grown steadily...
...boxer, a good-natured brute of a dog, was bred in central Europe in the 15th Century to whip its weight in wild boars. In the U.S., until recently, boxers were as rare as giraffes. Even 16 years ago, says one breeder, "you could lead all the boxers in the country into Times Square, say 'scat,' and they'd have been out of sight in the flick of your finger." Now, still good-natured but also smartly fashionable, some 75,000 boxers (costing up to $5,000 per pup) are on leash in the 48 states...