Word: flails
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then the R.A.F. promptly took up the flail. A force hit Cologne at about 8 p.m. A few minutes later another force, much bigger, hit Düsseldorf for 27 minutes, during which more than 2,000 tons were dropped...
...Mack, 80-year-old manager of the Philadelphia Athletics, compared with him then (as he does now) in disregard of age. Both hate liquor and tobacco. Both have infinite faith in their players. Both recognize that baseball and football are only games-something few coaches admit-and refuse to flail their breasts or their players when they hit a losing streak...
Clyde K. M. Kluckhohn, Associate Professor of Anthropology, slashed out with a lecture modestly entitled "The Case Against Liberalism," at Tuesday evening's "Liberalism" meeting, the fourth in a series of seven. Not only did the speaker flail the liberal conception of basic human nature, but he also hit at our religion of today, declaring "we need a church, a new church, an humanistic secular church...
Chippewa men, standing erect in the bows, pole their canoes into the rice fields. In the stern of each canoe sits a squaw, holding in each hand a wooden flail. Gently, lest the plants be hurt, she presses a sheaf of rice stalks between the flails, bends the sheaf over the side of the canoe. Gently still, the flails knock the ripened heads off the stalks. The rice falls on a canvas cloth or into a birchbark basket; the canoe moves on; the rest of the grain sinks to the fertile mud on the bottom of the lake, to take...