Word: whipping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pittman liked straight shooting, straight talk, straight whiskey. Despite his 68 years, he was tall, lean and lithe as a whip. It was said that he kept flat-waisted by bowing gracefully. He had plantation manners-the soft-voiced courtesy of his Vicksburg, Miss, breeding. But he was tough, too, in the tradition of Westerners, never more dangerous than at his extreme politest, with a laconic wit that shot from...
Because a sister of the parish hates to be caught unprepared by her preacher, on his pastoral rounds he would linger out front tying his horse (later testing his tires) until she had time to whip off her apron and straighten up the parlor. Because the Methodist Discipline forbade smoking, he passed out chocolate cigars when his son was born. But he knew how to call his shots. When a parishioner begged him to tell her daughter not to accept a job in Manhattan because something might happen to her there, Parson Spence looked her in the eye, said...
Also shaken in his "safe" seat was the Democrats' Senate whip, Sherman ("Shay") Minton of Indiana. Atop the seesaw at mid-count was jelly-chinned, 65-year-old Editor Raymond Eugene Willis, a safe-&-solid Republican...
...anyone does not know how these ingredients taste, let him whip a quart of the thickest cream, mix the best green salad he knows how, pour a tumblerful of creme de menthe. cook up a bowlful of spicy Hungarian goulash-then mix them all rapidly in a tureen and spend two hours trying to consume them all at once...
Harvard has long been a reactionary on the subject of an Ivy League. Traditional Athletic Association policy has been to exploit our strong position and write our own football ticket for the less powerful colleges (weaker in finances and prestige). The H. A. A. cracked the whip and schools like Dartmouth had to get in line or face possible exclusion from our schedule...