Word: whips
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Congress no more. Big, bronzed lame-duck Scott Lucas, after a visit to the White House, went through the motions of majority leader. His gear was all packed. He will be at home in Havana, Ill. after Jan. 3, practicing law. Pennsylvania's Francis J. Myers, the majority whip, was equally relaxed: he will soon be a Philadelphia lawyer again...
...Leader, New Whip. By virtue of a shaky 49-47 majority, the Democratic Party would also organize the upper house. But in the Senate the loss of Scott Lucas and Francis Myers posed a formidable problem. The Democrats had to find a new majority leader and a new whip...
...exhaustive fervor: "Willie's great. He doesn't try to knock the spirit out of a horse; any horse he rides can be raced again in a couple of days-and that's unusual. Willie's a great judge of pace. He doesn't whip the horse right out of the stall like Longden, but gets the feel of the horse in the first few strides, then knows instinctively how to race that horse to win. He's the kind of jock who 'rates' horses ... He has good hands, and horses instinctively...
...great deal more than the names in its cast. Perhaps with another superb musical background which could have created a powerful mood or submerged the action completely, these stony characters could have made the movie at least passable. But R.K.O. failed to take this precaution in its haste to whip up another Valli-Cotten pudding...
...Riopel, Purple coach, claims that his team is still unorganized, but the Crusaders had enough to whip Dartmouth and Yale, and tie Boston College and Colgate. But Riopel's team is used to giving the varsity defensive practice, so the freshmen have to learn a new formation almost every week. As a result, the Holy Cross attack has a little of everything...