Word: whip
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Conscientious as he was, Harry Truman could whip up little enthusiasm over the prospect of his three-ply job. Last year, with a Democratic majority in Congress, his efforts had produced few results. With the G.O.P. in the driver's seat he could expect to be even less effective in guiding the Congress. About the best course he could set lay along the line of middle-of-the-road generalities which would commit the Democratic Executive as lightly as possible...
...whip this week was an old crony-Australia's ambidextrous Jack Bromwich. Their games were unlike: Kramer is an enthusiastic big hitter, Bromwich is strictly a baseline hugger. Says Kramer: "I have the kind of game that can beat him if I am absolutely right." On their match would probably turn the Davis Cup of 1946. Experts agreed that none of the other three Americans-Frank Parker, Ted Schroeder, Gardnar Mulloy-nor Australia's Adrian Quist, Dinny Pails and Newcomer Colin Long were any match for the Jacks...
...holdovers from last year's squad, Mariaschin in generally considered as good a defenseman an the Crimson has had in the past five years, both for his ability to handle enemy forwards, and for his whip-lash accuracy on long set shots...
Dick jumped in like a man trying to beat a run on the bank. He went for the tigers first-they cost $1,000 apiece. But when he drove them up to the shelf with the buggy whip, big lions piled up at the chute and began killing little lions...
...Fatal Weakness (produced by the Theatre Guild) finds the George Kelly who has so often gone after women with a whip (Craig's Wife, Behold the Bridegroom) merely thwacking them with a hairbrush-and almost patting the heroine on the head. The Fatal Weakness is sharp-eyed but light-reined comedy that would be straight matinee stuff were not much of it matinee stuff in reverse. Unsentimental Playwright Kelly has a way of suddenly going against traffic-of, for example, letting a curtain flutter down just where a standard-brander would start licking his chops. Again, after ringing...