Word: whip
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...just like Waterloo!" shouted a gleeful spectator when the good news, 7 to 4 for Britain, was posted on the Scoreboard. For golfers, it was at least that. It took Wellington only four days to beat Napoleon. It had taken Britain 24 years to whip the United States for the Ryder...
...Faubus is at high tide here. And his ability to whip the legislators into line on his policies is well known. He is considered an astute vote-getter and few bills bearing his approval have failed in the legislature...
...conference with the President of the U.S. (TIME, Sept. 23), returned from Newport all full of himself, soon gave up any pretense of living up to his implied agreement to start withdrawing National Guard troops from Little Rock's Central High School. He desperately tried to whip up backers for his claim that Little Rock had been about to erupt into violence at the start of integrated classes. Example: he called in a Little Rock city official, displayed a schoolbook with a square section of pages cut out ("Just right for hiding a gun"), and a few water pistols...
Getchell has been given good material, and the ability to whip a team into shape. He wants one more gift: 'morale" for his team. A booster bursting with high spirits is always a receptive pupil, and provides "fertile ground for teaching," as the soccer coach puts...
From Crooner Cole came praise for NBC for "supporting the show [at a cost of $20,000 a week] and picking out good sponsors-like Rheingold Beer." As other sponsors queued up, Cole curled his prune-whip voice around a hot salvo for Madison Avenue: "That street still runs TV, and there is reluctance on its part to sell my show. Madison Avenue is in the North, and that's where the resistance is. Sometimes the South is used as a football to take some of the stain off us in the North. I have been well received...