Word: whip
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...welfare funds, but the steelworkers' treasury and those of other big C.I.O. unions are ready to help in hardship cases.* Phil Murray and his lieutenants vowed that they would "never surrender." Said Murray: "There just isn't any group or citizen in this country big enough to whip this union...
...week's end, like a lion tamer who disdains whip, chair and pistol, Bull Boatner entered one of the new pens and walked alone, unarmed and unmolested, among the prisoners. He had cowed the unruly Communist, and had done much to restore U.S. prestige lost by previous pampering and bungling...
...liked the old (1932) Rodgers & Hart waltz Lover ("Lover, when I'm near you," etc.). She gets a picture in her head when she hears it: "The French Foreign Legion is riding out into the desert. They start off at a moderate speed. Then the leader raises his whip and swings it in the air. and they start to go faster and faster...
Though Peggy's dream leader-brandishing a whip-sounded more like Eddie Arcaro than a spurred cavalryman, Decca was impressed, agreed to let her record the old waltz as a triple-gaited mambo with a 37-piece accompaniment. In its first two weeks, Peggy Lee's Lover has sold 250,000 copies...
...Trades and Labor Council, with a total membership of 90,000, declared: "This is the first crack of the Nazi whip." In Cape Town, Opposition Leader Jacob Strauss, as stout an anti-Communist as Dr. Malan, promised that his United Party would stand by the trade unions...