Word: whips
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Speaker Sam Rayburn, Majority Leader John McCormack and Majority Whip Robert Ramspeck will be back to lead the 79th Congress. The man who never quite gets to be Speaker, Republican Leader Joseph W. Martin, was returned easily, to head a leaner minority...
Susie exploded from the starting gate with her wobbly ears cocked forward, her long stride eating up the ground. After just 50 yds., Devil Diver was three lengths back; at the wire, it was six. Megogo was never in the race. Without a single token tap of the whip, Susie had traveled the route in 1:56 3/5 - the identical time set by Seabiscuit in humbling War Admiral in the same race six years...
...foundations. The present government rests on a coalition of four parties: Peasant, Liberals, Social Democratic, Communist. Communism is not strong in Rumania; the Communist Party claims only about 2,000 members. But the presence of the Red Army makes the Communists feel stronger, and they hold something like a whip hand in the Government, because they are able at any time to brand it as reactionary simply by withdrawing their support. What the Russian attitude toward the Communists is is not clear, but they do not openly or officially support them...
...horse with Pavot's appetite and disposition. (The only time Pavot ever showed any sign of temper was in the Hopeful Stakes at Belmont last month, when Jockey George Woolf, intent on running a front race all the way, twice tapped him between the ears with the whip, both times got a turnaround dirty look from his mount...
...Balkans with equal zest. An engineer, fluent in five languages, he had been grumbling along as manager of a steel mill in the English Midlands. Postwar retrenchment shut the mill, freed Fodor. The Manchester Guardian liked his occasional letters from Middle Europe, asked for cables, soon hired the shy, whip-smart, "relentlessly honest" little man as a fulltime correspondent. Thereby, the Guardian conferred a major boon on U.S. foreign correspondence...