Word: whip
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...things were shaping up nicely. He had just seen his brood of House Republicans drop their squabbles, and obediently line up to be counted for a rock-solid party vote. The issue was the constitutional amendment to limit a President to two terms. Not a Republican wavered as Democratic whip John McCormack wailed: "It will make the Constitution rigid. It ties the hands of future generations." Of the 238 Republicans present, 238 voted right. With 47 Democrats joining them, the vote was 15 more than needed for a two-thirds majority. Joe was pleased...
...eyes, tired grey hair. Actually, he is a sensationally successful huckster, known far & wide among radiomen as The Great Salesman. He loves Donald Duck, practical jokes and the Notre Dame team. He signs his letters with a great big friendly "Ed." In his office is an eight-foot bull whip; Ed likes to snap it around and make like a slave-driver. But all his employees know that Ed is just kidding; he's really a card. His office door is always open, and to make perfectly sure that nobody gets any uppity ideas, Ed has had interoffice partitions...
...time. Tonight at 7 o'clock is the big one with flashguys and a 22 gun salute. Comb your bair, whip out your shiny new life, and look at the birdie. Afterwards, a cop for all plus a six-ring cirens with guaranteed mellow inselect background, Coine...
Then peppery Kenneth Wherry, majority whip, nominated the Rev. Peter Marshall, powerful-speaking Scotsman, pastor of the capital's New York Avenue Presbyterian Church, as the new Senate chaplain...
...shaky beginning last week, Vines looked as if he had some distance still to go. He finished 15 strokes behind the winner. Said he: "Somehow, there don't seem to be more than two or three good tennis players at one time . . . but golf is different. You must whip an awful lot of fellows to get on top." Some of the "awful lot" were among the 130 who teed off at Los Angeles' Riviera course. There was a top layer, of such men as icy cool Ben Hogan (TIME, Nov. 18), which would take some cracking. Last week...