Word: whip
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...invention of the devil, and he may have been right. Jazz is the music of the moment as football is the sport of the moment, but classical music, like a game of chess, takes practice to be understood. The critics who try to "popularize" good music and whip up team spirit for conductors and orchestras, do so partly from lack of anything better to do, and partly to give themselves some kind of community dignity. The fault lies with the institution of music criticism, which, as it stands now, does more damage to its ailing Muse than it does good...
...they were not smart enough to whip the eternal dilemma of the man-hunted. All they gained was liquor and women : as they moved from apartment to apartment they left a trail of bobby pins and empty bottles. Otherwise life was just like prison - except that it was riskier...
...Hall, Boston, when Rosenthal, of the stocky, powerful figure, eagle-beaked, massive-jawed, with black mane and Kaiser mustache, played the Liszt E-flat concerto, and Karl Muck leered over him on the conductor's stand, snapping the chords from the orchestra as a Mephistopheles would crack a whip over his minions, and the two played into each other's hands with a deviltry beyond words. Hah! The intrepidity, the dash, the saber and spur of it, the wild exhilaration, the reckless mastery of the whole business...
...took six months of intense study of our resources and the entire world military situation to arrive at the figure 7,500,000 as the size the Army should reach next year. I do not say that we can whip the Axis with an army of 7,500,000. The 1944 estimate, which will be able to carry a more intelligent factor for battle casualties, will not be ready until next August...
When Agriculture Secretary Claude Wickard got his new powers over food last week, he was traveling up & down the country trying to whip up enthusiasm for his 1943 production goals* without much success. Barring a miracle, Claude Wickard's fellow farmers (he raises corn and hogs in Indiana) did not see how they could keep production steady, much less increase...