Word: whips
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Crimson responded to New York crowds and commercialism with a disappointing display of first-night jitters. The superb passing and marksmanship that had enabled them to whip Yale and Quonset was transformed by the tight Buckeye defense into a sorry exhibition of wild ball-heaving. And the extra-ordinarily close arbiting of a hypercritical referee throttled the usual effective Crimson defense...
Normally, radioactive particles from the cloud should not reach the sea for two or three hours. But the bomb's hot gases, rising rapidly, might whip up a genuine thunderstorm. Then the particles would all fall much sooner, in a deluge of deadly rain. Colonel Holzman hopes to pick a day when conditions are poor for an atom-brewed thunderstorm...
...Zero hour, when the bomb is dropped, a blast like a hundred hurricanes will whip the still lagoon. A pressure wave will strike across the Pacific, perhaps to be felt by sensitive instruments in San Francisco and Washington. An earth wave will shoot through the sea floor toward distant seismographs. What will happen to the ships in Bikini Lagoon, no one knows...
...three weeks to whip the Navy team into shape. Plans for defense and kick-off drill on the day before the game were frustrated when the players arrived to practice on the Shanghai race course. The reason: the city government was shooting six criminals on the field...
Philadelphia was touted by Judge L. Stauffer Oliver. Colorado University's whip-smart Robert Stearns cried havoc on his coastal rivals for tidal waves, earthquakes and tornadoes. Tongue in cheek, San Francisco's urbane Mayor Roger Lapham recalled being frozen fast in the harbors of both Boston and Philadelphia in his early yachting days...