Word: whip
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...duration." Last week the War Department let drop a hint that "the duration" would run six to twelve months beyond a year. Announced reasons: equipment shortages, delays in mobilization had cut down actual training time so that it would take at least six months more to whip the Guardsmen into real soldiers...
...matter of dispute. ... I have seen Montana mentioned, and also Idaho. The state of Idaho has, I believe, the stronger claim. There is a story . . . that this youngster from the Wild West made his first English appearance wearing a large cowboy hat, and flourishing in his hand a cowboy whip, which he would crack to emphasize his remarks...
...Howard-although Roy Howard began to recant last week -see p. 59); by the nation's largest single newspapers (New York Dally News, Chicago Tribune); by huge, well-heeled lobbies (America First Committee, scores of others). Their Senate numbers grew slightly, and their leaders were daisy-fresh and whip-smart. Lanky, dimpling Mr. Wheeler daily needled his foes so expertly that they forgot their vows of silence in roars of rage, whereat Mr. Wheeler cut them down as efficiently as a Greek sniper...
...York Daily News. Each in his own way was a crass sensationalist. Joe got the biggest circulation in the U. S., Bertie the biggest in the Midwest. Said Friend-of-the-People Cousin Joe, onetime intimate of Bowery bums and taxi drivers: "Bertie certainly likes to crack the whip and watch the serfs march...
...whip up support behind former President Herbert Hoover's plan for supplying the European Democrats with food, the Committee for the Five Small Democracies will held a public meeting in the Lowell House Common Room at 8 o'clock tonight...