Word: whip
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...long fly ball over his head, he takes one look, turns his back and digs for the spot where the ball will drop; 2) he has patiently acquired the knack of picking caroms off the tricky right-field wall at the Polo Grounds; 3) his buggy-whip arm has enabled him to set a league record for starting double plays from the outfield (twelve in one season...
...night woods, he runs afoul of the local Jukes family, whose name is Fleagle. While he twitches around among cattle skulls in the uninviting Fleagle living room, and snags his hand in the twanging spring of a devastated sofa, Mamie Fleagle Johnson (Marjorie Main) assassinates flies with a bull whip, and her third husband, a mad scientist (Porter Hall), suggests that perhaps he'd better knock together another coffin...
Finally, bald, persuasive Speaker Sam Rayburn went down to the floor, solemnly read a letter from President Truman: "I regard the pending measure . . . as of the first order of importance for the success of my administration." With the party whip thus cracked. Democrats held firm, passed the bill 239 to 153, sent it to a none-too-friendly Senate where hearings, debate and outcry would start this week...
...Pasvolsky, with the eyes of a tired owl, knew more about the Dumbarton Oaks plan than any one else. Archibald MacLeish shepherded a restless horde of consultants, and Nelson Rockefeller Avas able scoutmaster for the Latin Americans. Rockefeller gave the Europeans an unpleasant impression of a party whip swinging his votes...
...getters go mad with civic joy. A general and reporters and newsreel cameramen will arrive the next day; their town is on the national map and the profits, they believe, can be enormous. They whip up banners on which Benny's name appears much smaller than that of his birthplace. But they can't find Benny's family, to receive the medal and act as peg for the exploitation...