Word: whip
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hardest job," he says, "has been to keep our church from becoming a social whip. The radicals bear down, saying we are not in there fighting. Others want us to become an organization, a placement bureau, a mission that gets people jobs and gives away shoes." Thurman recently approved the decision of a member not to wear his Wallace button while welcoming people to church. "We are a religious group," he insists. "It is important that we give strength to people working on interracial problems, but the interracial character of our own group is becoming the least significant part...
...first half mile, Citation lagged in fifth place. Knockdown, a hard-luck horse flown from the East for the race, set the pace most of the way. Then Jockey Eddie Arcaro, usually a spare-the-whip man with Citation, really let him have it (said he later: "I've hit him once or twice before in all the other races. Never hit him like this"). Going into the far turn, Citation started to move up. Arcaro brought him up on the outside, sacrificing ground to avoid jamming. (Said Eddie: "I had plenty of horse under me when I moved...
...first year (1921), he rode more winning mounts than any other jockey in Australia. Moving on to England, he dumfounded horseplayers by winning without using much whip. But bettors disliked him, because when the Crocodile saw he couldn't win a race, he often stopped trying. "If the owner wants me to place, I try, but I don't like to ride a horse into the ground for nothing." English fans nicknamed him "brigand"; in France, he is called voleur (thief) more often than le roi des jockeys...
Dangerous Rival. The Olympic rival that Ulbrickson worried most about was Harvard, which had its own private "sweep" last week. Coached by a scholarly ex-Washington oarsman,* Tom Bolles, Harvard set a new course record on Connecticut's Thames River to whip Yale for the tenth year in a row. This week, on Princeton's Carnegie Lake, N.J., the Huskies will face Harvard, Yale and eight other crews to determine who will row for the U.S. in the London Olympic games...
...with the most dolled-up and weighted-down, the most eye-filling and eye-closing production numbers in show business; and they can make ice skating seem the most lethargic of all sports. This year, however, they display a certain mild improvement. The big patriotic number really cracks the whip as well as waves the flag; and one or two of the more lavish spectacles show a definite advance from the artistic level of the candy box to that of the Christmas card...