Word: whip
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...burly 52, he radiates good-natured befuddlement, looks rather like a beardless Santa Claus, with a full, ruddy face, frosty eyebrows, tousled white hair and a red flannel shirt to keep out the drafts that whip through his old house and set its mobiles whirling...
...week he received scores of callers, many of them retiring lame-duck Congressmen. One evening, heavily guarded by Secret Service men, he rode up to Capitol Hill for a dinner honoring two key Democrats who had been defeated at the polls:Majority Leader Scott Lucas of Illinois and Party Whip Francis Myers of Pennsylvania. "I have learned," Harry Truman told the assembled lame ducks, "that if you stick around in public life long enough, defeat is certain...
Witness Ludwig Tobias said Ilse kicked out 13 of his teeth. Six witnesses testified that Ilse rode her horse through a group of prisoners, lashed them with her whip...
...Willie the Whip." Thirteen years after his graduation from West Point came the assignment that determined the shape of Tunner's Air Force career. In June 1941 he was named personnel officer of the newly formed Air Corps Ferrying Command and promptly began to eat and sleep air transport. Within a year he was a colonel and had command of the Air Transport Command's Ferrying Wing, charged with delivering aircraft to U.S. and allied forces in every theater...
...officers expanded on LaFarge's theme. Said he: "Will's great fault is his impatience. That business of wanting something yesterday, not today, is a little hard to take." But Tunner's toughness, which has led some of his present subordinates to christen him "Willie the Whip," gave his men efficiency and esprit de corps. Even when removed from his command they remained "Tunner...