Word: whip
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ater playing in St. Louis before 9,662 people, the Scottish booters moved on to New York for the second of seven scheduled stops. Chief purpose of the tour: to try once again to whip up enthusiasm for soccer in the U.S., where the game's most rabid admirers* are in such places as St. Louis, Kearny, N.J. and Fall River, Mass. One reason why soccer may never take the U.S. by storm: the peak of the season comes during the winter months when fans prefer to be indoors and more comfortable watching basketball...
...though not from the party, were five of the cabinet's parliamentary private secretaries* who had voted against the government's bill to establish Britain's relationship with Ireland. Said one of the purged, ruefully: "If you vote against the government on a 'three line whip' [direct orders from party whips to vote] you are sticking your neck out ... I have no complaint...
Crack the Whip. Foote has a good deal to say about Soviet spy-recruiting methods and the whip-cracking tactics of the Moscow chiefs. As valuable as the spies themselves, he says, are the party members and fellow travelers who pass on information, sometimes innocently, which the best of spies could never hope...
Father & Son. Amm-i-Dent is made by Jersey City's little-known Block Drug Co., founded 42 years ago and still very much bossed by taciturn Pharmacist Alexander Block, now 67. As chairman, Block cracks the whip over a family team-sons Melvin, 41, who is president; Leonard, 37, who handles the money, and daughter Betty's husband Albert Roberts, production boss. Together they boomed Block Drug to a gross of more than $10 million last year on 25 dental products (Poloris dental poultices, Polident denture cleaners...
...English for the first time. It is one of those books that is alternately fascinating and dreary, tinglingly exciting and unendurably boring. Journalist Dostoevsky observed none of the rules; he wrote about whatever he pleased at whatever length he pleased, and he wrote sloppily and badly, seldom troubling to whip his pieces into coherent shape. Diary is a vast jumble of rants, stories, articles, sketches, criticisms, polemics-some completely dated, some as fresh and troubling as The Brothers Karamazov...