Word: whip
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...there was any point at all to politicians going through the ritual of campaigning, it was simply to whip up the enthusiasm of local professionals, charged with rounding up the vote. There was no point at all, he asserted, to political pulse-taking after the campaign had started. "It has become a stunt. Like tearing a telephone directory in two, it impresses without instructing...
Home Life. In Topeka, Kans., hospital doctors treated the head wounds of Ford Sanders, who indignantly wondered what was the matter with his 13-year-old son: "I was just going to whip the wife a little and he hit me on the head with a brick." In Springfield, Mass., Robert H. Smith won a divorce when he testified that his wife slapped him because he could not dance the polka...
...Hands. One of the eeriest features of television commercials is the disembodied hands whose busy work is described by disembodied voices. These ghostly hands are likely to snap. Ronson lighters on & off, or to whip up a foamy lather of Ivory Snow. Some advertisers just skip the hands and let the product operate mysteriously without visible human help...
...Charles, waving his glasses in the air and pointing them towards Vishinsky, replied with icy indignation: "I will not jump at the crack of Mr. Vishinsky's whip . . . But I have been here three days listening to Mr. Vishinsky and I wonder who at this table is the cook...
...question . . .") and of his development into a perfectionist for the U.S. and an apologist for the Sovíet Union. It showed Phil at work in labor unions ("Come early and vote late") and in front organizations that turned and twisted (and took new names) with the whip-cracks of the party line...