Word: whip
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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National political pundits had been curious whether Nashville Lawyer Ray Jenkins, the special counsel in the Army-McCarthy hearings, could whip Estes Kefauver. At week's end Jenkins settled that question by announcing he would not run. Kefauver's friends, who had not been worried much about Jenkins (or any other Republican), were not necessarily cheered. They were seriously concerned about Pat Sutton and the Democratic primary, and were advising Estes: stay home and start fighting...
Party Line. Hungary, once a limp wrist in international competition, climbed to prowess because the Sports Ministry in Budapest's postwar Communist regime has stuck sternly to the party line that a people's democracy ought to breed winners; the politicians ride herd on the sportsmen to whip them into smooth teamwork. State doctors from the Institute for Sport Hygiene check up on training, state coaches work overtime to turn out well-drilled scoring machines. The fine eleven beat Britain's best in Budapest last May, soon after breezed into Bern and swept easily into the quarter...
...horror of loud ties, and when he is tempted to substitute one with a touch of color for his favorite dark blue knit, he sometimes appeals to Macomber to tell him whether the new tie is too loud. Assured that it is not, Cooper is still likely to whip the blue tie out of his pocket and change...
...born and raised in Ashwood, a hamlet near the mountain resort of Hot Springs, Va. and its famed golf hotel, the Homestead. The five Snead brothers begged broken-shafted clubs from the Homestead caddy master, and replaced their splintered wooden shafts with whittled hickory sticks or old buggy-whip handles. Sometimes they carved an entire driver from a hickory sapling with a knotty root...
...five localities of Hunan, dissident peasants and militiamen together manufactured illegal arms and attempted to whip up "the wavering sentiments of the masses" for abortive revolts (Peking People's Daily, April...