Word: whips
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dirksen, chairman of the Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee, was the chief strategist in the move to soften censure, and New Hampshire's Styles Bridges, president pro tempore, stood shoulder to shoulder with Dirksen; Michigan's Homer Ferguson, chairman of the Policy Committee, and Massachusetts' Leverett Saltonstall, whip, were in on the consultations. While McCarthy was vilifying Utah's Republican Senator Arthur Watkins, the G.O.P. leaders who drafted Watkins for the censure job turned their backs...
...Camp Gordon, Ga., Lieut. Anderson was given eleven days to whip one company into shape. ("The men wore dirty uniforms, their pants were unbuttoned, and they needed haircuts.") In eleven days it was an honor company...
...football's biggest weekend. All Saturday morning, rain fell on Columbus. But it stopped by noon, and on the stadium's dry turf Ohio State came back in the fourth quarter to whip Michigan, 21-7. Not since Chicago, coached by Amos Alonzo Stagg, turned the trick in 1913 had a Big Ten team won seven straight conference games; the Buckeyes were Big Ten champs and Rose Bowl-bound. All evening Columbus echoed to California Here I Come...
...editorial pages of the Chicago Tribune. One of the lesser-known facts about the 1952. Republican convention is that there was considerable Taft sentiment in the New York delegation. It has been estimated that as many as fifty delegates were personally favorable to Taft. But when Dewey cracked the whip, the elephant performed as a good elephant should and gave almost 100 votes to Eisenhower, assuring him of the nomination. No Sabu with Dewey's skills seems to be emerging to hold the state together as well as the former governor did. Unless President Eisenhower himself decides to run again...
...jibes at the world. If he did use words, the effect might become altogether too brutal. Commenting on one of his Christmas cards, which shows Santa's sleigh drawn by a tiny bird, Steinberg once sighed that "the bird every so often gets a tremendous hit with that whip." And a gentle smile perked for just an instant his sad mustache...