Word: whip
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...will have their tough, experienced leaders back. Shiny-pated Speaker Sam Rayburn, 69, ran without opposition in his Texas district; Majority Leader John McCormack of Massachusetts and all of the important Democratic committee chairmen also won. The G.O.P. will again be guided by Minority Leader Joe Martin of Massachusetts, Whip Leslie Arends of Illinois...
...much lived up to his disclaimer, posing provocative problems, and then nimbly backing away to leave them dangling unsolved. Chicago's publicity department was a little cast down, because "Mr. Eliot just doesn't seem to say anything startling." It was proving difficult, if not impossible, to whip together anything very definite for press releases
...Senate, the Republicans counted confidently on taking Democratic seats in Pennsylvania and California, and the Democrats did not seriously dispute them. If so, the Democrats stood to lose their majority whip, inconspicuous Francis Myers. His opponent, Pennsylvania's able, red-haired Governor Jim Duff, was popular, and Republicans had not lost an off-year election in the state since 1934. In California, Representative Richard Nixon, the man who did most (in the House Un-American Activities Committee) to drag the Alger Hiss case into the open, was conceded a big lead toward the Senate over Fair Dealing Representative Helen...
...Whip-Cracker. Almond (pronounced All-mond) is a whip-cracking officer. He never compromises with discipline, drives himself hard and his subordinates only a shade less hard. To some he seems an insufferable martinet. Those who know him best say his professional manner, at times as tough as armor plate, is only the protective covering for a courtly, convivial, even sentimental off-duty personality...
...happen to be Mrs. Denmanson. Was city editor of the now extinct Seattle Star at the time. Few controversial letters were arriving for the "From Our Readers" column, and one of our many successive editors asked me to whip out a few phony letters to bring in replies from readers...