Word: whip
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...produced by Dwight Deere Wiman) is a harmless piece of flimsy-whimsy about a poor little rich girl who makes friends with a kindly old tramp, visits him in his hobo jungle, coos over his tame rat, prattles on about Life. Her snobbish parents and his tougher fellow tramps whip up, between them, some lurid melodrama, but nothing that a final curtain can't cure...
This column will operate on the assumption that it is better to whip up enthusiasm for what is coming than to deliver a post-mortem on what is past. During the course of time, several toes may be stepped on and some popular heroes outrageously traduced, so it is hoped that all who feel moved to reply by letter will do so. The good letters will be printed in part, and often the letters constitute the most readable part of a column, as Vergil Thomson's Herald Tribune column has amply demonstrated this fall...
...kind of journalese during the war will be expected to drink the cup of peace after the war. That is the paradox of winning both the war and the peace. All talk about fighting the enemy governments, and not the enemy peoples, is being choked in an attempt to whip the American public into a psychological tantrum that will inspire them to make great sacrifices at home and do deeds of unsurpassed daring on the battle fronts...
...great fuel capacity. Their own P-405 were of an early model, far from tops. They knew, too, they would be outnumbered: but it was up to them to prove a thesis that once had seemed beyond question: that man for man, plane for plane, anything labeled U.S.A. could whip anything labeled Made-in-Japan...
Protagonists. This struggle, and the issues involved in it, has been among the most complex in New Deal history. On the one hand is a Federal body set up to allot radio frequencies and license stations in the public interest. Through its licensing power it theoretically holds the whip hand over every one of the country's 890-odd stations. At its head is a tall, unreconstructed Texan, an oldtime anti-trust lawyer and regionalist who was once general counsel...