Word: whips
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From 7:30 to 9:30 o'clock girls connected in practically any way with the University can splash around in the pool's 225,000 gallons of chlorinated water, whip out a bottle of Gaby, close their eyes and make believe they're back at that favorite beach or lake-all for four bits...
...nomination had been opposed by the weight of the G.O.P. leadership-Policy Committee Chairman Robert Taft, Majority Leader Wallace White, Majority Whip Kenneth Wherry-and 23 GOPsters had loyally backed them up. But more significant was the fact that 20 Republicans had broken away to follow the lead of Michigan's Arthur Vandenberg in voting for confirmation. With 37 of the 44 Democrats voting or paired for approval, the truant Republicans provided the margin of victory. It was a personal triumph for Arthur Vandenberg...
With Kisses. To whip up Royalist enthusiasm the royal couple this year have visited troubled Macedonia, Thessaly and Epirus. In Salonika Frederika plunged, over official protests, into the working quarter, won a few smiles and cheers from sullen leftists, was kissed ("from top to toe," she said) by working women outside an orphanage. When she left Salonika, a shopkeeper arranged a triptych of photographs in his window: Frederika flanked by Stalin and the Greek Communist leader, Zachariades...
What Durocher lacks as a manager is supplied by his wily and pious boss, Branch Rickey, known as The Brain. It is Rickey who assembles the circus, Ringmaster Durocher who snaps the whip. Boss Rickey has a great gift for spotting young talent, signing them up hastily, and training them wisely. In four years he has made Brooklyn's farm system baseball's biggest, outspreading the famed St. Louis Cardinals' system, which he built. The tree that Rickey is growing in Brooklyn (see chart) has 25 branches. This year 450 of its finest fruits were processed...
...time Senator Donnell's energy began to run down, Republican Whip Ken Wherry was pleading with Democrats not to encourage a new flood of oratory by undue questioning. But when Donnell finally subsided, with the unchallenged comment that it must be a "great relief to members of the Senate," the parliamentary dillydallying began. It was not until week's end that the Senate came to a vote...