Word: whip
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Davis Cup matches, Japan's Ichiya Kumagae sat in the stands at Forest Hills and excitedly watched his countryman, Zenzo Shimizu, whip Tilden in the first two sets 7-5, 6-4. Shimizu got within two points of match in the third set. Then Tilden shifted out of second gear. Playing faultlessly, he got off smashes, drop shots, over-spins, undercuts, volleys and cannonball serves the like of which the Japanese had never seen. He pulled out the third set, 7-5, romped through the next two, 6-2, 6-1. The Japanese went home without the cup, beaten...
...Samuel Ladoke Akintola (B.A., Oxon), slick-talking Yoruba lawyer who had just resigned as Minister of Labor in Nigeria's central Council of Ministers. A nationalist who wants home rule (within the British Commonwealth) by 1956, Akintola had journeyed to Kano hoping to arrange a meeting which would whip up Northern enthusiasm for his independence movement. Apparently he had forgotten, or did not care, that the proud Moslem emirs of the Northern region have no taste for independence if it means exchanging their British masters-who in the main are just, if aloof-for a group of African Oxonians...
Down the stretch they pounded, with Jamie K. closing the gap under a whipping ride. A furlong from home, the Dancer, who races best when he's behind, began to lag. Guerin, for the second time in the Dancer's career, went to the whip for three smart whacks. The whacks were enough. Under the finish wire it was the Dancer by a neck. The time: 1:57 4/5, sixth fastest in the 77-year history of the Preakness...
Stiff tailwinds whip the plane along, unexpectedly clipping minutes off the scheduled flight time. In a fateful contest unknown to the people on the plane, the tailwinds race the ticking bomb. At 11:05, 25 minutes ahead of schedule, the DC-3 touches down at Mazatlan's palm-fringed airport. The heavy package is taken off the plane and, while the DC-3 takes off again, it is placed in a luggage cart. At 11:20 the bomb bursts. It kills three airport employees and wrecks the control tower. At the same moment, the direct plane...
...ballet practice session, watching a youngster languorously stretching at the barre and enjoying the movements of his own body. The ballet's evolution was neither easy nor fast: three years after the original idea came to him, Robbins got down to work, took six weeks to whip it into final shape...