Word: whip
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...time in less than a fortnight (TIME, July 25). Reason: he again failed to draw a full house. After first firing Cox because his act, a medley of warmed-over Peeperisms, left the patrons cold, the Dunes Hotel rehired him three days later on his promise that he would whip up a scintillating potpourri of brand-new Peeperisms. But on his second chance, Funnyman Cox chiefly tried for laughs in a masochistic spectacle of eating crow and sadly cackling over the original egg he laid. Muttered a disconsolate Dunesman: "He laid another egg. There weren't enough clients...
...gyrations-lunging for bad pitches, darting like a great cat after well-dropped bunts, settling under pop fouls or wheeling and firing to pick a man off base-Campy keeps the good catcher's track of every aspect of the game. It takes a hog-wild pitcher to whip a ball out of Campanella's reach, or stick a pitch in the dirt that he cannot dig out. "I line up my body for the way it's coming in," he says, "and jump if it's too much outside. I do it all pre-advance...
Even in the paddock, the mousy little man in the gold and white silks seemed out of place. He flicked his whip in the dust and scuffled his boots like an embarrassed kid. Beyond him New York's Saratoga Raceway came alive with rural vigor; floodlights brightened over the hayseed atmosphere of a country carnival. Grandstand and clubhouse bulged with bettors, lines lengthened at pari-mutuel windows, tip-sheet hustlers hawked their wares. Joseph Cyril O'Brien, 38, looked just a little overawed by all the excitement...
...Committees before he takes the armed forces out of such nonmilitary activities as cake-baking, dry cleaning and coffee-roasting. The section was tacked on to the bill by members of the House and Senate whose districts vare graced with such federal activities, e.g., Leverett Saltonstall. the Senate G.O.P. whip, who was protecting the rope-twisting installation at the Charlestown, Mass, navy yard. President Eisenhower had a hard label for the Capitol Hill handiwork: "An unconstitutional invasion of the province of the executive...
...career might not have seemed so surprising. Ever since he was a child, he has made it a habit to confound the imperial household. At four, he broke into the public press by publishing an original essay ("The horse is a very clever animal. You beat him with a whip, and he quickly jumps"). For years after that, he was known as the Prince of Nursery Tales...