Word: whipcrack
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Only You (The Platters; Mercury). The rock-'n'-roll set is gobbling this one up fast. Its gimmick: a regular snapping sound on the offbeat, like a whipcrack. The lead singer, presumably frightened by that whip, shrieks in a quivering, gasping falsetto. A nerve-racking specimen of the continuing rock-'n'-roll dementia...
News from Havana tended to explain why it would have been especially unwise to whipcrack last week. The Scripps-Howard press called a revolution "near," marked as potential leader of the revolt Col. Carlos Mendietta, popular swashbuckler. Returning from a Cuban visit last week Senator David I. Walsh of Massachusetts said...