Word: whip
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harvard Houses could come through only once in yesterday's games with the Yale colleges, but that once was enough for Kirkland House, the Crimson inter-mural champion, to whip the Yale champions, Berkeley, by a 21 to 12 score and bring the inter-University championship to Harvard for the coming year...
Alben Barkley's old job as Senate majority leader would probably fall to Illinois' tall, personable Scott Lucas, Senate whip and Barkley's understudy. Barkley, himself, was expected to step down frequently from the presiding officer's dais to exert his considerable talent for cloakroom leadership. Texas' Tom Connally, 71, who has lost some of his shaggy hair because of shingles, will take back the big job of chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, where he has labored in comparative obscurity for the last two years under the shadow of Michigan's Arthur...
...appears on the sport pages. The men who write the sport headlines hate to use a quiet word when a violent one will do. One day last week the Denver Post, refusing to admit defeat in its football headlines, found 32 ways of avoiding it: Blast, batters, murder, pastes, whip, crush, wreck, jolt, outscraps, spanks, rolls over, romps over, upsets, rout, toy, dump, bows to, tumbles, drops, trip, tops, sinks, buries, belts, wallops, wins, blanks, licks, trounces, subdues, turns back, edges...
...horse or anything." But rather than let another jockey ride Citation in last week's $25,000 Sysonby Mile at Belmont, Arcaro got a shot of novocaine in his lame shoulder and climbed aboard. If worst came to worst, he decided he could whip with his left hand...
...opponents have never seared him, however. When he coached at Georgetown during the '20's, it was Little's custom to take 180-pounders and whip them into teams that could take on the nation's best. During his six years at Georgetown, Little's squad lost but five games, and beat such outstanding outfits as the NYU squad that featured Ken Strong...