Word: whip
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Just a year after V-E day, the U.S. Army's reputation in Europe-once as bright and shining as a liberator's sword-had disintegrated into disrepute. Last week General Joseph McNarney, commander of all U.S. troops in the European Theater, finally cracked the whip of discipline on the Army of Occupation in Germany (see below). But the situation which called for this action had been worsening for a long time. In the Christian Century, the Rev. Renwick C. Kennedy, an ex-Army chaplain now returned to his pastorate at Camden, Ala. after 20 months in Europe...
...Joel McCrea (about as expressive as lumber), The Virginian makes a bad run of it. Most to blame is the story; its gingham charm has worn thin. And as in most Westerns, acting and direction are as lifeless as a frontier cemetery. Even when the Virginian cracks his famed whip-line-"When you call me that, smile"-not Badman Trampas (the ubiquitous Brian Donlevy), but the audience complies...
...Majority Whip John Sparkman, of Alabama, warned his colleagues: "If you change the age limit to 20, there just aren't any men left. . . . I want you to think...
...Floor area: 250 by 200 feet-just slightly smaller than Manhattan's Madison Square Garden. From a normal temperature of 80° F. the hangar can be cooled to -50° in 48 hours, or warmed from 25° to 165° in 16 hours. Wind machines whip up 100-mile-an-hour storms, complete with rain, snow or hail...
Miss Bowen's touch is not always sure. When it is, it is as light as fine porcelain, as sudden as the crack of a whip...