Word: whip
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Deadening Fear. Apparently Perón had several aims in staging his melodrama : to whip up his followers' flagging loyalty, excuse his scrapping of "pacification," scare the opposition meeting-holders and leaflet-passers. Most important, perhaps, he may have wanted to forestall any new military move to get rid of him by reminding the high brass-especially in the navy and air force-that he can still draw big, ugly crowds to the Plaza de Mayo...
...horses shot out of the starting gate for the 1¼-mile race. The crowd let out a roar as Arcaro whipped Nashua hard: within seconds the big bay horse spurted ahead, close to the rail. As Nashua shot forward, Swaps first veered to the outside, then tried to close. The crowd waited confidently for Swaps to make his move. Twice, coming into the backstretch and approaching the far turn, Jockey Shoemaker tried to move up on the outside; each time Arcaro whacked his mount and pulled away, holding the inside track. Coming down the long (1,531 ft.) homestretch...
...American Derby last week, Swaps broke in front. Jockey Willie Shoemaker allowed him his own, front-running race until they got to the 16th pole. Then Willie stood casually in his stirrups and looked behind. Clifford Mooers's Traffic Judge was closing fast. Willie just flicked his whip; he never hit Swaps once. The California champion reached out and finished a length in front. He had covered the mile-and-three-sixteenths in 1:54 3/5 to crack the track record and tie the American standard for the turf distance...
After a wartime layoff, during which he served as an infantryman in the French army, Urruty went home to concentrate on pelota. By then he could whip all comers. Once one of his ardent admirers presented him with a big cigar. Deeply honored, Urruty returned the compliment. He gave his fan, Sir Winston Churchill, a chistera as a souvenir...
Obviously the Soviet press could jump back to the old line it has been following for years a split second after the Kremlin snapped the whip...