Word: whips
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that's the way to really whip that mean old polio...
...Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II) is a great big follow-the-formula, fetch-the-crowd musical. It bothers with nothing artistic or bizarre. It involves almost as many people as were needed to build the Pyramids, and works the most important of them almost as hard. Star, whip and wheelhorse of Annie is Ethel Merman...
From the start of last week's Kentucky Derby, 26-year-old Jockey Mehrtens suspected he had quite a horse under him. For seven furlongs he sat tensely tight-then he began laying the whip into chestnut, Texas-born Assault. An 8-1 white hope whose home base is the 900,-ooo-acre King Ranch of Texan Robert...
...first pitch. His arms heaved from below his knees to a great overhead stretch, his left leg twisted up & around, he practically put his gloved hand in the batter's face, his right arm snapped through with as much wrist English as though he were cracking a blacksnake whip. The Yankee lead-off man hardly saw the first one that buzzed by with a full two-inch...
...copped just about every big stake for horses their age. She finished up the season as the nation's top money winner-with earnings of $589,170-even though she objected to her "little darlings" wearing blinkers because they didn't look pretty, and forbade jockeys to whip the darlings during a race...