Word: whip
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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McClellan Adviser Q. L. Porter recalls an early strategy conference: "John said, 'If McMath wants a fight, he can sure get one with me.' I said, 'John, if you go in there with that attitude, he's gonna whip the pants off you. That's the only way people can ever beat you-by making you mad. And here you sit in my office, and you're mad already, and the campaign hasn't even started...
CARL ALBERT Majority Whip House of Representatives Washington...
...Governor General is Lord Hailes, 56, who was named a peer early this year after more than 25 years of minor fame as the most elegantly attired M.P. in the House of Commons. As Patrick Buchan-Hepburn, he served as Conservative Chief Whip from 1948 to 1955, was Minister of Works in Sir Anthony Eden's Cabinet. He dropped out, however, when Sir Anthony stepped down and Harold Macmillan took over. His appointment as Governor General did not meet with universal approval. The London Times pointed out that the position of first Governor General calls for a "man with...
...Morris Bober's troubles never come singly. Not only has a brand-new grocery opened around the corner, halving his already pitiful income, but a pair of inept hoodlums, passing up Karp's well-heeled liquor store, rob Morris instead and pistol-whip him when they find only $10 in his cash register...
With its usual indifference to audience ratings, Radio Moscow doggedly droned forth the entire report, all 20,000 tedious words of it. Then, day after day, while Pravda, Trud and Izvestia printed interminable pages of commentary, Agitprop specialists fanned out across Russia to whip up support among the workers. Russia's bosses were conditioning their subjects to Nikita Khrushchev's plan for the most radical shake-up of Russian industrial organization since the early days of the Soviet regime...