Word: whip
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Going into the stretch, Jockey Brooks drew his whip again, gave Citation a businesslike whack. "I wanted him to keep his mind on the race," said Brooks. Citation did. He ran down Bolero in the stretch, got home three-quarters of a length ahead. The tote board flashed the time: Citation had run the mile in 1:33 3/5, two-fifths of a second better than the world record set by his stablemate Coaltown at Washington Park last year. A moment later, the announcer verified what everybody at Golden Gate already knew: Big Cy had also beaten Stymie...
...election this fall is still to be won, but Duff is given a good chance of beating plodding Senator Francis Myers, Democratic whip in the 81st Congress. The Democrats have hopefully stored away all the charges of vote buying and fraud hurled by the battling Republicans, and last week they were wondering aloud whether Grundymen would work very hard for a man who has sworn to strip them of all patronage. But Jim Duff had no regrets. Said he: "It was a fight which had to take place, because the party could not go two ways at the same time...
Middleground made a threatening move as they rounded into the homestretch, and got within a length of the leader before Arcaro went to the whip. Hill Prince's response was decisive. He lowered his head, lengthened his stride and breezed to a five-length victory. Time for the mile and three-sixteenths on the drying-out track was a slow 1:59 1/5. Mr. Trouble, second choice in the betting, never made it the three-horse race everyone expected; he finished fourth behind his stablemate, Dooly, and 16 lengths back of the winner...
While Jack's late brother, Charles L. Blanton, whip-tongued editor of a Scott County paper, was known as the "polecat editor," Jack always preferred a gentler and humbler approach. The most celebrated demonstration of its effectiveness was the 1942 Monroe County drought. In a 60-pt. streamer on Page One, Editor Blanton proclaimed: LORD, WE CONFESS OUR SINS, WE ASK FOR FORGIVENESS, WE PRAY FOR RAIN. An hour after the paper hit Main Street, the rains came. Recalls Blanton: "Trouble was, it rained so much the farmers couldn't harvest the crops. The farmers still come...
Leverett had to come from behind again to win. Wednesday, they scored six runs in the last inning to whip Eliot, 9 to 8. Yesterday, the Bunnies counted six times over the last three innings to beat Winthrop by an identical 9 to 8 score...