Word: whip
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Better than Expected. Parliamentary tactics grew so confused that half of the members, half of the time, did not know which side they were voting on; Percy Priest, Democratic whip, pranced up & down the aisle, beating his forehead in frustration, trying to keep his boys in line...
...Held to whip up support for the British...
...Reds last week were making frantic effort to whip up enthusiasm for the Korean "volunteer" action. They were trying hard to convince the Chinese people that the U.S. is their enemy. Mass meetings, parades, plays, street-corner posters and soap-box orators painted the U.S. in the blackest patterns. A Shanghai revue, playing to packed houses, depicted the brutal forces of U.S. imperialism descending on unarmed Korea and closed with a glimpse of John Foster Dulles plotting Japanese rearmament with Premier Yoshida. At railway stations there was rally after rally hailing soldiers on their way to fight the imperialists...
...office by the fickle electorate usually vanishes from the public eye like a golf ball driven into the rough. But the brassie of public displeasure had a different effect on Illinois' Scott Lucas, the former Democratic floor leader, and Pennsylvania's Francis Myers, the former Democratic whip. Last week they were right back in the capital again-this time as 1) lobbyists, and 2) critics of the Administration...
HANOVER, N.H., May 12--Harvard's crack lacrosse team roared back from a three-goal deficit to whip Dartmouth, 8 to 3, in a driving rain today on Memorial Field. In beating the Indians for the first time in 14 years, the Crimson virtually clinched the New England League crown with six straight wins--seventh since its unofficial spring trip...