Word: whip
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from home he hustled Battlefield out of the pack and set out to collar the leader, Greentree Stable's 13-to-1 Big Stretch, hard ridden by Ted Atkinson. With a sixteenth to go, it was still Big Stretch. Then Arcaro gave his colt a touch of the whip. As Battlefield slowly closed the gap, Eddie yelled to Atkinson. "Got you!" said Eddie, and he was right-by a nose...
...announced that Charlie had been arrested and was being held in some undisclosed place, but cleared him of any blame for the shooting. Then he arrested Grand Dragon Hamilton, charged him with inciting a riot, and confiscated his robe and a 16-ft. bull whip...
Stacks of mail were coming to Congressmen, demanding that something be done about rising prices. Like a scared herd, they reacted first in chaos and confusion (TIME, Aug. 14); then almost by stampede, as Administration leaders cracked the whip over them. The House, which had ineffectually tried the week before to ad-lib some sort of law, let Chairman Brent Spence's Banking & Currency Committee write a bill behind committee doors. It passed the House by a lopsided, anticlimactic vote...
...lead at the quarter-mile mark, held it under Miller's pace-setting drive until the field rounded into the homestretch, a three-sixteenths-of-a-mile straightaway. Then Star's Pride made a bid from two lengths back, drew almost even. Miller took to the whip, and Lusty Song won by a scant neck...
Well, said Harry Truman, as 132 bloodthirsty newsmen watched eagerly, this was a surprise! Priest had no business saying that, Truman retorted-especially since he is the House Democratic whip. Make it plain to him, the President told the reporter, that the two secretaries would not resign as long as he was President...