Word: whip
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...also sponsored by a district of Rome, which furnished the driver, the horses and the cheering section. Young Carlo Gigli, representing the middle-class Flaminia district, was in the driver's stand of the blue-and-white chariot of the Christian Democratic newspaper La Liberta. Handling the whip of the bright red chariot sponsored by the Communist L'Unitá and the poverty-ridden San Lorenzo district was oldtimer Amedeo Valentini, who drove a chariot in the movie Ben Hur 25 years...
...twisting whip-lashes on one of many machines which were loaned or rented to housewives (in the 'gos) by a reputable concern which then bought, at what then seemed a fair price, all of the whip-lashes that a busy farm wife and mother could produce in her spare time. The lashes were made of pure silk in many bright colors, and were used exclusively for ornamenting the tips of buggy whips. As a child, I often watched my aunt operating such a machine in her farm kitchen within a few miles of Baptist Corner...
...most horse races, a whip lash in the face is considered bad manners, at least. When it happened twice last week to a jockey in Siena, Italy, he quit and let his whip-wielding rival win. Instead of being barred for life for such tactics, the winner was wined & dined, and a sonnet composed in his honor was distributed throughout the town...
...stretch, the race had settled down to a match between Dragon's speedy young mare Nituzza and Wave's pace-setting Miranda. Twice Nituzza's jockey tried to pass; twice Miranda's jockey flailed him across the face with his long, beef-sinew whip. Miranda won by a length. The winner's purse: 360 lire (about...
...Razmara has a reputation for honesty and selfless service rare among Iranian politicos. As chief of staff for the last five years, he got along on three hours' sleep a night, worked from 5 a.m. till late at night, snapping his wiry body about with energy enough to whip new nerve and discipline into Iran's army...