Word: whip
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fortunately, the rough end of the schedule does not come until February, when the wrestlers must successively face six of the East's foremost powers: Army, Brown, Princeton, Springfield, Columbia and Yale. Until then, Pickett must whip his line-up into shape and overcome the handicap of inexperience against Boston University, Amherst, Tufts and Williams...
Indecent Exposure. Some of those approached decided they were unable to whip up their beliefs in handy, non-controversial form for delivery in 3½ minutes of radio time. Wrote Novelist Kathleen Norris in refusing: "It's either a mawkish sermon, or it's indecent exposure." But an impressive cross-section of U.S. opinion did respond. Excerpts...
Princeton is an overwhelming favorite to whip Yale after last week's showing...
...hostile toward Lodge because of his support of Truman's foreign policy and his continual bolting of the party on other issues. The elder Kennedy, to the contrary, has always been a rabid isolationist, and presumably the Taftites feel, or know, that his son, once out of the party whip's reach, will expound isolationist ideas. The Deverites' support of Lodge is more intricate; it is due in great part to personal friendship between Lodge and them. In many cases, the friendship started with Lodge's father who fought for equal rights for the Irish immigrants in the days when...
...plain Maurice-Edmond Sailland, he ate well, as most people do in his native Loire valley, up to the age of 15, but only for the sake of sustenance. Then his wealthy family hired an illiterate peasant girl named Marie Chevalier as their cook. A native genius, Marie could whip up sauces creamy as clouds and subtle as sunsets; she could pluck a plum tart from the oven at the split second of proper crispness or mash a marron to the delicacy of morning dew. "She civilized me," sighs Curnonsky, repeating an old quip: "She turned my needs into pleasures...