Word: whips
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...they get back more planes. When the Air Transport Command grabbed 159 commercial planes in 1942, the airlines kept right on increasing their traffic by getting more miles out of their remaining 165 planes, and loading them more heavily. Pointing to this record of efficiency, the Committee cracked a whip at ATC, said that the return of only 16 planes (five of these to replace commercial planes destroyed) "is not creditable...
...five is far from hopeless. Most of its errors were on the "if-at-first-you-don't-succeed" plane, and Floyd Stahl should be able to whip the boys into a pretty good fighting unit by the end of the month. But Henry Hibbard, George Boston, Dan Shields, and Dean Hennessy are lost for the rest of the year...
...picture's action is not as expert as its characterizations. Towards the end it begins to fall apart. The escaped prisoners whip up a very well-filmed insurrection among French villagers and lead a retreat to join a highly fictional guerrilla army."Let's scorch the earth!" cries implausible Housewife Emma Dunn. They do-and a good deal of the picture's force and persuasiveness go up in smoke. Otherwise, The Cross of Lorraine (which takes its name from its undergrounders' Guallist password) is one of the best war films that has been made...
...simple and ugly: he sought to whip up anti-Semitism in strongly Catholic Quebec. To his Ste. Claire hearers, many of whom seldom if ever see a Jew, Duplessis hinted a horrendous plot by the International Zionist Brotherhood to establish 100,000 Jewish refugees from Central Europe on Quebec's rolling fields. Opposition Leader Duplessis dragged in Premier Adélard Godbout's ruling Liberal Party, said that the Zionists had decided "to aid financially all Liberal candidates who would agree openly or secretly to support the plan in the House of Commons...
None paid closer heed than soft-faced, whip-lipped Heinrich Himmler (TIME, Oct. 18). As the Minister of Interior, appointed less than three months ago (see cut), he stood alert to nip the rise of "any traitor chief...