Word: whip
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...With his winning ways, the Butler inspires every upstart to an all-out effort to whip him. His third time out this season, when he burst in front at the start of the $25,000 Summer Festival Pace at Roosevelt, spectators wise in the ways of the wagon ponies strained to see the expected duel. Could the Butler's seven rivals box him in and keep him from winning? The Butler dropped back briefly at the ¼mile pole, then surged in front again. Four horses, as if working in relays, came up to challenge him, but the Butler...
...Angeles Angels Manager Bill Rigney thinks the bats, not the balls, are responsible. "They have a harder finish." says he. "And the light bats have that good whip action." As if to back up Rigney, the Tigers' Cash does his heavy hitting with a 31-oz. bat. lightest on the team. By comparison. Ruth used to tote a 42-oz. shillelagh to the plate...
With his great bull whip, so goes the legend, Columbia Pictures' late President Harry ("The White Fang") Cohn liked to snap out the lenses of his flunkies' sunglasses. That sort of management more or less characterized the feudal days when the major studio bosses-Goldwyn, Mayer, the Warners, Cohn-were almost as well known as their stars. Now that Hollywood is often duller than its pictures, the mighty name symbolizing the new Age of the Independent Producer is roughly as well known as the incumbent ruler of Bhutan...
...Trujillo's brother Héctor, he had fallen into disgrace when some of his relatives were implicated last year in a plot against Trujillo. Diaz joined a group of three civilians and four other former Trujillo tigers who were ready to turn against the man with the whip...
Psidium started dead last. But as the horses pounded through the tight arc of Tattenham Corner and into the stretch, Jockey Roger Poincelet, aboard Psidium, lazily swung his whip. The colt responded with an astonishing burst of speed that carried him into the lead and under the wire two lengths ahead of his closest pursuer...