Word: whip
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Prensa is unlike any other newspaper anywhere. In its fine old building the rooms are lofty and spiced with the odor of wax polish, long accumulated. Liveried flunkies pass memoranda and letters from floor to floor on an old pulley and string contraption. But high-speed hydraulic tubes whip copy one mile from the editorial room to one of the world's most modern printing plants-more than adequate to turn out La Prensa's 280,000 daily, 430,000 Sunday copies...
Today's game opens the regular season for a Yardling squad that has had but two weeks to whip into shape. But this handicap has been remedied by excellent attendance that has marked '46 workout sessions for the first two weeks of the year. The highlight of this session was the Freshman win over the Varsity in a semi-practice game...
Conditioning exercises will be given for the first month of practice to toughen the swimmers for the coming aquatic season. After the dry land training, swimming practice, lasting for an hour and a half each afternoon, will help to whip the team into shape for its meets, the first of which is with M.I.T. on December...
...assertion suggested why the Administration's plans for vigorous immediate action had been abandoned. There had been indications, from various "anonymous high officials," of lower food ceilings, a cost-of-living ceiling on wages, absolute freezing of salaries above $7,500 a year, a powerful economic administrator to whip the whole program into sense-making action. Perhaps the President had not only felt it wiser to give Congress a chance to repeal the 110% of parity law, but first to put the heat on Congress and the farm bloc so that there would be less criticism of any step...
Liberal democracy became inert and the masses apathetic (except to benefits received from the state) largely because the little man saw or sensed that monopolistic forces of production had obtained by influence a whip hand over the state and over himself, no matter how he voted...