Word: whips
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rude Awakening. Whip-smart Walter Reuther, the United Auto Workers' leader whose political prestige was placed on the November line by his effective convention support of a Stevenson-Kefauver ticket, launched into a 20-minute argument for an all-out Democratic endorsement. Labor, said Reuther, must protect its bargaining-table gains in the political arena. "We did not choose the battlefield," he cried. "Our enemies have gone there, and that is where labor must go to protect itself...
Early in 1952, he saw Illinois Governor Adlai Stevenson on TV, decided then that Adlai was a sure winner. At the 1952 convention, he helped run the draft-Stevenson movement on the floor, returned to Philadelphia to whip up enthusiasm for the national ticket. Result: Philadelphia gave Stevenson a majority of 160,000 votes...
This reasonable goal was something less than what was sought when the conference was first proposed three weeks ago. Then the angry British and French wanted a fast session to whip off an ultimatum backed by force to smash the pretensions of the Egyptian strongman. But by the time the 200 diplomats and aides gathered around the hollow rectangle in Lancaster House last week, even the British were beginning to say that their utter dependence on the canal for oil imports was not really so utter. They could survive, even if put to great inconvenience. "Many are thinking," said...
...Oedipus Complex, a jolly dentist assures his patient he'll whip out a bad tooth "in a couple of shakes." He takes a couple of shakes; the tooth breaks. "So that's the game, is it?" crows the dentist, still merry as a grig. He assaults the tooth "with something like a buttonhook." Another piece breaks off. "We'll have to saw," cries the delighted dentist. While the tooth is sawed, button-hooked, drilled and shaken, the dentist, dropping his guard for an instant, admits to the patient that he (the dentist) has suffered hell...
...semi-finals of England's Midland Counties tennis championship, a 19-year-old Briton named Michael Davies was moved to try an ingenious bit of gamesmanship; he walked around the net to say that he was defaulting. Prevailed upon to change his mind, Davies went back to whip the startled Aussie, 6-3, 4-6, 6-4. After that Davies had nothing left. In the finals he lost to South Africa's Trevor Fancutt...