Word: whip
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that often calls for a yellow filter, and the moon merely an object which it is hard to photograph without a tripod: he approaches the highest peaks through a telephoto lens, scans new horizons through his range finder-and if he ever came across the Blue Bird, he would whip out his color chart...
...matters take their course. But, riding a colt named The Hoop last week, Willie was in a notable hurry. At the break from the barrier he got his horse off to a quick lead; when two other horses threatened to overtake him, Willie quickly went to the whip, drove hard all the way to the finish. The Hoop won by a neck, and the crowd at California's Golden Gate Fields sent up a roar. The roar was not for The Hoop but for Willie, the winningest jockey in history, and for his record-breaking 391st victory this season...
...Stir up the fire, Lucio . . . You have the whip and the little knife? Good . . . I don't believe he's Jack-fool enough to resist." But Richard Morandi, a bastard descendant of Stuart kings, is not one to let himself be castrated in front of his sweetheart without fighting back. Since it is Venice and the 18th century, Richard has a knife of his own up his sleeve, and he knows how to use it. Many a lesser novelist would be out of climaxes after Richard dispatches his enemy, but Novelist Samuel Shellabarger has lots more...
...with the bath water. Unity, yes; uniformity, no...Let's keep our contradiction and chaos, even at the cost of consistency if necessary...I would rather go to hell with the banner of contradiction and chaos before me than be frog-marched into heaven under the mean whip of consistency. Because then, at least, I would go to hell a free...
...policemen on hand to watch his guests and their estimated $9,000,000 worth of jewels. The cops were impeccably clad as 18th century plainclothesmen, but not all the guests were so socially correct. Washington Socialite Gwendolyn Cafritz burst in, looking very modern, with an apology: "I had Schiaparelli whip this up only yesterday; I had simply no time to find anything 18th century," Screen Star "Zizi" Jeanmaire (Hans Christian Andersen) turned up in a few strategically placed sequins, riding what might or might not have been an 18th century camel. Another girl came as a white rabbit, with neither...