Word: whips
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Petersburg droshky driver was merrily lashing his horse in the Russian manner. Suddenly a smart carriage pulled alongside and Bergh, who was First Secretary of the U.S. Legation, bellowed to his coachman: "Tell that fellow to stop!" Obediently the droshky driver dropped his whip. First Secretary Bergh nodded approval, set out in pursuit of other inhumane drivers...
...Luftwaffe's late, great Ernst Udet exhibited three German planes in Buffalo. Doolittle casually asked Udet for permission to try one. Udet watched Doolittle whip around the sky, hid his head in his hands and moaned: "Oh, my God, my poor plane...
...resident members of the Guadalcanal Press Club had seen and experienced more tough combat than any U.S. correspondents in World War II. Reporters on Bataan could recuperate in the rock caverns of Corregidor. On Guadalcanal, reporters' protection consisted solely of the fighting marines. Unlike many of their whip-corded, cane-carrying, limousine-borne forebears of World War I, Guadalcanal newspapermen literally become "fighting correspondents...
...General Electric President Charles Edward Wilson, ran into so much trouble last week that he was close to resigning. He had orders from Donald Nelson to take full charge of aircraft production, which has coasted along on a laissez-faire basis. But Nelson did not take stern action to whip the Army & Navy into line. He merely called in some military men for "discussions." Sharp differences of opinion arose; Wilson suddenly discovered that he had full responsibility without full power...
...Georgia Tech can whip Kentucky, Alabama and Florida-and Georgia can take Florida, Chattanooga and Auburn-Georgians will rightfully demand a State holiday Nov. 28, day of the Georgia-Georgia Tech game...