Word: whip
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Snapped Like a Whip. The Broker hit the spur at 5:43. The first cars lurched wildly. Just past the trestle, the steam locomotive toppled over on its side. There was a thunderous crash. One after another, the cars smashed ahead, tumbled down the embankment in a tangle of steel, slicing glass and mud-hurling bodies from their sides like maggots...
...folded up on him and let him run his own race," while two fillies, Next Move and Special Touch, fought for the lead. But in the run down the backstretch, Shoemaker began bringing Great Circle up on the outside. Coming into the stretch, with Shoemaker giving him plenty of whip, he overhauled the pacemakers, won by a length and three-quarters...
...majority leader, they rejected Wyoming's Joseph O'Mahoney, who was backed by outnumbered and plaintive Fair Dealers; the caucus elected Arizona's Ernest McFarland, an amiable, inconspicuous second-termer who consistently breaks with the Fair Deal on civil rights. For the job of whip the caucus picked Texas' Lyndon Johnson, chairman of the Armed Services Preparedness subcommittee, who defies the Administration just as regularly on civil rights, labor, tidelands...
Shepard, who watched Tufts whip Wesleyan, a team the crimson beat 56 to 48, praised the play of Goodwin and his fellow captain, Jim Mullaney, "They are both tall, but very maneuverable," he said...
...Cluttered & Tangled." To ex-Schoolmaster Whitman, U.S. education in the mid-19th Century was bogged down in "precedent, old times, and respectability," was "cluttered and tangled up with a thousand senseless notions and stupidities." Almost everywhere the whip was used "to crush and tame the mettlesome, soothe the feverish and nervous, reduce the spirits where they are too high, and transform impertinence and obstinacy to mildness and soft obedience." Schools had become "penitential purgatories," and teachers "identified with a dozen unpleasant . . . associations-a sour face, a whip, hard knuckles snapped on tender heads . . ." It was not only whips and sour...