Word: whips
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Whip. Cried Cincinnati's energetic Preacher R. Gammon Morris: "I am for war. I am an American, I am a Methodist, and I am a Negro. . . . Jesus Christ, when things got into confusion, didn't stand up in the temple and preach to men that after a while things would be all right. ... He went and got Him a whip. I declare to you that it is time for us to get a whip and stay by that whip until totalitarianism has been driven from the face of the earth...
...strings, but Irish Democrats control the ballot boxes. The Old Stock has long since been flooded under by successive waves of immigrants who rapidly became voters; the Irish (70% of the Boston vote), the Italians, French Canadians, Poles, Russian Jews. Boston's best can and do keep the whip hand over bank directorates, and in the overstuffed gentlemen's clubs on Boston's near-sacred Beacon Hill. But what political power they still possess comes strictly from Yankee trader ingenuity. Thus, by enactment of the conservative state legislature, Boston cannot choose its own police chief-the governor...
...Island-Hopping makes me sick, too. . . . I'm for Eisenhower. I'm for MacArthur. . . . You can't whip Germany by whipping somebody in Senegambia. I'm a 'cross-Channel' man, myself, and I think we've finally got the right idea in an all-out Western Front attack...
...face this invading purple juggernaut Harvard will be able to field a complete squad in tip-top condition. They sparked as a unit for the first time all season in the last half of the Yale game, three weeks ago, and they have had these weeks in which to whip themselves into condition for this skirmish...
Interwoven in pulverizing succession came heavy raids, on Bremen (1,200 tons) by the Eighth, on Berlin (1,120 tons) and Frankfurt (2,250 tons) by the R.A.F. Before the Frankfurt raid, Canadian squadrons in a whip-smart feint slashed at nearby Mannheim, drawing the Luftwaffe into the skies. By the time the main attack on Frankfurt developed, the Luftwaffe realized its mistake, sent its harassed night fighters racing northward. They arrived too late. By then 800 R.A.F. planes had loosed their 2,250 tons of bombs in 35 minutes, gone home...