Word: whip
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Thomas, New York University professor of medicine and brother of the Socialist candidate for President (like his brother, jailed as a C. O. in World War I), conducted its first New York public test tribunal for youthful dissenters. Questions put included such traditional pacifist posers as "Did not Jesus whip the money-changers out of the temple?" As the nation went, so went Eleanor Roosevelt. Turning on her old friends, the American Youth Congress and the American Newspaper Guild, for their "claptrap" talk decrying the draft, she offered up her four strapping sons, should the country need them-like Cornelia...
Almost as well known as the genesis of The Star-Spangled Banner is the history of God Bless America-how Kate Smith's Manager & Partner Ted Collins asked Irving Berlin to whip up a patriotic ballad for the diva's Armistice Eve program in 1938; how Songwriter Berlin sat down at a piano, pecked out a variation of a ballad he had written in 1917; how Kate Smith relentlessly plugged the song. Not so well known are the many commercial and artistic complications through which God Bless America has recently staggered...
...this country to a second baptism of blood in foreign lands... An unparalleled hysteria gripped America and reached its apex in May when the low countries of France/collapsed/Every agency, Government and private, and the agencies of public information, seemed to have entered into an informant and fatalistic liason to whip the fears of this country to fever heat...
...stopping all design changes once a plane was in the production line, military fussiness having caused incredible delays in both British and U. S. factories. He concentrated, like Hermann Göring, on a few proved types. With recalcitrant manufacturers he used what an assistant called "spur and whip, and sometimes a bag of oats." Every manufacturer found himself accountable to one of Lord Beaverbrook's committeemen, at first weekly, then once...
...memory of his boyhood idols, Director Lindheimer has named these races after jockeys who made old Washington Park famous at the turn of the century: immortal Isaac Murphy, slaveborn Negro who won four American and three Kentucky Derbies; whip-snapping Snapper Garrison, whose habit of coming from behind to win made "Garrison finish...