Word: whip
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ballroom of Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria, Pillsbury Mills last week gathered 100 cooking champions to compete for more than $125,000 in prizes in its Grand National Bake-Off. Each was allowed a day to whip up a favorite recipe. The winner of the $25,000 first prize: Mrs. Bernard Kanago, wife of a Webster (S. Dak.) paperhanger. Her prizewinning concoction: My Inspiration Cake.* Mrs. Kanago, whose hobby is cooking, said that "the recipe just came out of nowhere...
Mortal Danger. Lyttelton's defense was simple and eloquent: "The security of the colony was in mortal danger . . . Action, immediate action had to take place." The House sustained Lyttelton, 304 to 271; and, despite a three-line party whip, two Laborites broke discipline by refusing to vote against...
...Bovard. If Founder Pulitzer created the paper's vigorous spirit, it was the paper's longtime (1908-38) Managing Editor O. K. (for Oliver Kirby) Bovard who translated the spirit into a day-to-day newspaper. A whip-cracking taskmaster, he was known in the trade as a "one-man school of journalism" or the "greatest managing editor of all time." On the day he became city editor, Bovard was congratulated by one of his friends on the staff who made the mistake of addressing Bovard by his nickname, "Jack." Answered the new city editor frostily: "From...
...business to come up, most of the Tories had scattered far & wide, and many of them had been careless about being paired in their absence (Churchill paired with Opposition Leader Attlee, since both were dining that evening with U.S. Ambassador Winthrop Aldrich). Before the vote was called, the Labor whip rushed out to phone his flock. One set, who had been campaigning in two London districts for imminent by-elections, was easily found in pubs; and a group of 20 Bevanites were discussing their future at the home of one of them in Vincent Square. Giggling like schoolboys, they were...
...HAVEN, Conn., Nov. 20--Yale's once-beaten junior varsity struck twice, once in the first period, once in the third, to whip the Crimson JVs, 12 to 7, and avenge last year's loss to Harvard. The game was played today on the Dewitt Cuyler Field...