Word: whipping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Warming up for the new campaign, Old Earl ordered posters, stamped envelopes and 100,000 pocket combs. In the months ahead, Earl will shun television ("It makes me look like a monkey climbing a string"), happily concentrate on crossroads appearances in Louisiana's 64 parishes, whip up shouts of "Pour it on 'em, Earl...
Without waiting for the official veto message to reach the Capitol, Halleck and his whip, Illinois' Les Arends, had gone to work. All weekend they pestered and pressured their reluctant colleagues in the teeth of immense home-front opposition. Telephones buzzed and wires poured in from rural constituencies, urging passage of the bill. Worried Republicans from farm districts pleaded that a nay vote would be political harakiri, but Halleck sternly told them that it was a case of Ike or REA's Ellis-take your choice...
This week more than 1,000 Algerian communities began new municipal elections, the third balloting since De Gaulle came to power. Algeria's Moslem population was showing only sullen indifference to French efforts to whip up campaign excitement. And in a rural constabulary, a French army officer admitted that he was not trying to recruit Moslem candidates, because "a few days later those men would be dead. I will not sign their death warrant...
...sees as his most potent rival for the nomination is Missouri's low-flying Stuart Symington (see below), who will probably fight shy of primaries and hope for a convention compromise. To whip a weakening Humphrey, say Kennedy strategists, would only help Symington by removing Humphrey as a potential smoke-filled-room rival...
Facing M.I.T.'s strongest squad in many years, the varsity tennis team is nonetheless a favorite to whip the Engineers in the opening match of the regular season at 3 p.m. today on the Soldiers Field Courts...