Word: whips
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...other House game yesterday, Leverett came from behind to whip Eliot, 18 to 14. It was the second straight loss for the Elephants, winners of the House title for the last two years...
Timely Roundup. The revolt fell so flat that some observers jumped to the conclusion that Perón himself had faked it all to whip up the vote for November's election. That was unlikely. More probably, the plot was genuine but had been allowed to develop with Perón's knowledge while countermeasures were prepared...
...would put the full blame for boxing's sorry state on ex-Commissioner Eagan. But he was never one to crack the whip over boxing's hoodlums. Wrote New York Herald Tribune Sport Columnist Red Smith: "Eddie Eagan is a genuinely sweet guy. He is profoundly honest and profoundly sincere, diffident, humble and considerate. The first two qualities are indispensable in a boxing commissioner; probably the other three are a handicap." Smith also had a warning for Christenberry: "This veteran hotelman will find the fight mob noisier than convention drunks, less manageable than a weekend football crowd...
...world." To show what the P-1067 can do, Hawker's chief test pilot, Neville Duke, opened the throttle and snapped his plane low over the runway at 15 m.p.h. faster than the official world record (670 m.p.h.), held by the U.S.'s F-86 Sabre. The whip-cracking sound of its passage hit the crowd like an explosion and knocked a microphone out of an announcer's hand...
...engineers, of necessity, into inventors who range far beyond aeronautics. For example, they had to turn out new type of refrigeration to cool the cockpit and entire fuselage of the supersonic X3; otherwise, the friction heat at 1,800 m.p.h. would kill the pilot and melt the metal. To whip the problem of windshield fogging at great speeds, they are helping devise a water-repellent coating which prevents fogging for long periods...