Word: whisk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Diem proclaimed his nation's independence two years ago, his newly enfranchised countrywomen began to remold their personalities under the leadership of the President's keenly intelligent sister-in-law, beauteous, sloe-eyed Madame Ngo Dinh Nhu. With the help of her enormous charm and an occasional whisk of a sandalwood fan, Madame Ngo got herself elected to South Viet Nam's National Assembly, helped elect five other woman Deputies, and launched a drive for legislation banning 1) polygamy, 2) divorce, and 3) arranged marriages...
...whisk of the author's wand puts plain John ill at ease in the count's clothes and drawing room, half wanting and half dreading to be discovered as an impostor. The simplest acts are tense puzzlers, like finding his way to bed and then finding out who is in it. Acting the count, John soon realizes that the real count was fleeing a pack of emotional creditors whose hearts he had bankrupted. The count's mother is a morphine addict. His sister is a pious recluse who has not spoken to him for 15 years...
...Ambassador Thomas Whelan, a poker-playing personal friend of Somoza, got the news and urgently notified Washington. The White House moved fast. A radio flash to the Panama Canal Zone awakened U.S. doctors, ordered them to fly to Nicaragua. A U.S. helicopter took off to whisk the wounded President back to Managua, the Nicaraguan capital, at first light. Then President Eisenhower, who met Somoza at last July's conference of Presidents in Panama, sent off another plane from Washington carrying Major General Leonard D. Heaton, commanding officer at Walter Reed Hospital and chief surgeon at Ike's recent...
Mixing plugs with politics, the hucksters were making the most of their quadrennial opportunity to woo more than 11,000 delegates, alternates, journalists, wives and hangers-on at the convention. Outside the big hotels, 225 white (for purity) Fords, Lincolns and Mercurys stood by to whisk Democrats in air-conditioned and cost-free comfort to the International Amphitheatre. At the convention hall itself, the party that has not infrequently blasted Big Business let out space for the "American Showcase" promotion display of big business. The 22 advertisers hoped their free-handout booths might be picked up by roving TV cameramen...
...bayonets surrounded him the moment he stepped ashore, Gulek tried waving to onlookers, only to be warned by the police chief: "You are creating a political demonstration by waving. Kindly desist." At fabled Trebizond, where Xenophon's weary Ten Thousand finally reached the sea, the police tried to whisk Gulek from the dock to party headquarters in a car. When he insisted on making the trip by foot, they used clubs and jeeps to scatter the crowds that gathered to catch sight of him. At a later stop, a provincial subgovernor ruled that it would constitute a political meeting...