Word: whips
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...showdown came. Vandenberg prevailed; the amendment was defeated by a vote of 56 to 30. But the Republican high command was split wide open. Only the majority leader, Maine's feeble old Wallace H. White Jr., was on Vandenberg's side. Arrayed against him were the G.O.P. whip, Nebraska's Kenneth Wherry; Minnesota's Joe Ball, once a red-hot internationalist who now decried efforts to rush the aid bill through as "a combination of blitzkrieg and the old mousetrap play"; and, most important of all, Bob Taft...
Despite the brief period he has had to whip his men into shape, Kopp is all smiles when he mulls over his prospects for the current season, for his chances for a successful campaign are unusually bright. An outstanding Freshman quintet from last season has moved up to the Jayvee ranks intact and has provided Kopp with a formidable nucleus for his 20-man squad...
...smash both to smithereens. The spot he had put himself in was enough to try the patience of a saint, and J. Parnell ("Undoubting Thomas," as the Nation called him) was no saint. But he hated Beelzebub, and he was trying to solve the fly problem with a horse whip...
...wasn't. A flick of the whip brought him on again, across the line almost two lengths ahead. John P. Grier was never the same again...
...other, an old discolored caxon, denoting frequent and bloody execution. Nothing was more common than to see him make a headlong entry into the schoolroom and with turbulent eye, singling out a lad, roar out, 'Od's my life, Sirrah, I have a great mind to whip you,'-then, with as sudden a retracting impulse, fling back into his lair, and after a cooling lapse of some minutes . . . drive headlong out again . . . with the expletory yell-'and I WILL...