Word: whip
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Explaining the innovation, Bunks Burditt revealed yesterday that two players have already been so chosen from each house to represent the Crimson in the fray, and that he and Varsity Captain Bud Finnegan would try to whip them into shape before the encounter...
Grigg & Llewellin. Outside the War Cabinet ranks, two of Winston Churchill's Cabinet changes were striking. He ousted War Secretary Captain David Margesson, onetime Tory, whip who got out the votes for the Chamberlain appeasement Government, replaced him with a man who thus became the only permanent civil servant in modern times to reach the Cabinet without first being elected to Parliament or admitted to the peerage-Sir Percy James Grigg, Permanent Under Secretary of State in the War Office. Solid, profane, 51-year-old "P. J." Grigg is known as "the toughest man in the Civil Service...
...trawlers fought over whether owners should pay for war-risk insurance for the fishermen. Owners thought the fishermen, who shared the fishing profits, should share the insurance cost. Pending a final decision, the board ordered the owners to pay. When they still balked, the board cracked the whip until they complied. Act II-the old, taut problem of North-South wage differentials-also shaped up well at first. C.I.O. aluminum workers in the South wanted wage boosts up to the level of the Northern workers. The board granted a 7?-an-hour increase, reducing the differential. But in a statement...
...victory, we may lose the solution of the problem amid the wreckages of war. This looking-forward attitude does not indicate a complacent belief that we have already won or are even winning. But an understanding of the fundamental peace aims will make us even more fighting mad, and whip up our spirit by pointing out for what we are fighting...
Tall, deep-voiced and deliberate, John R. Mott, still hale at 76, has practiced self-discipline since youth. He got an en cyclopedia from his father for neither drinking, smoking nor gambling until 21. Not famed for wit or humor, he knows how to find and use facts, whip men up to enthusiasm...