Word: whip
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...would drive his blooded Arab horse around the outskirts to the back door of a house in which some Contradese girl cried her heart out because her family lacked money for a dowry. Contradese parents soon learned to come running when they heard the crack of Silvio's whip, for it meant that he had come with a dowry fit for a patrician. "I know the bitter humility impoverished youth is made to feel in Contrada," he would...
...honor on my father's memory." One memory of his father, the late Moses L. ("Moe") Annenberg, that lingers in U.S. history is a three-year prison term for evading $1,217,296 in income taxes. That part of the memory, says son Walter, "has been like a whip on my back." The Moe Annenberg that Walter remembers and reveres was a self-made immigrant from East Prussia who started out as a newsboy, became the Hearst chain's circulation director, and left to build a publishing empire on the cornerstone of a racing-wire service he fondly...
...ranging from 26 to 31 Ibs. to the other entries. Tom Fool broke fast from the starting gate, ran easily in second place until he hit the far turn. There, Jockey Atkinson loosened his tight hold on the reins, clucked once, and Tom Fool took off. Never under a whip, never under pressure, Tom Fool won easily, by a length and a half...
Johnson's move toward the minority leadership actually began in 1951, when Dick Russell took note of his ability and put him over as whip (assistant floor leader). After the G.O.P. victory last November, Johnson in Texas telephoned Russell in Georgia to propose that Russell be minority leader. No, said Russell, Johnson was the man. After that, Georgia's Russell plugged Texas' Johnson every time a Senator called for advice. By the time Congress convened, Johnson had plenty of votes to turn back a threat by a group of Humphrey-led liberals...
...Whip Shot. Cardano knew all about loaded dice and such tricks as the whip shot: "The die is thrown straight with such an impetus and such a number of points exposed above that it is probable that the point which we wish will come uppermost." He knew about soaping a card to make it recognizable to the touch, listed several ways of marking cards and told how nimble-footed partners could signal each other on a loose floor board...