Word: flog
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ralph, 35, styled a tight-fitting jean with pocket stitching that was to be made under contract in Hong Kong, and Avi, 33, set up a distribution system. Early last year Joseph offered high pay to hire the best salesmen that he could find, and they went out to flog the line. Once they got $1 million in orders, bankers gave him big loans. Daringly, he plowed most of the money into advertising-$3 million since January-and wrote much of the copy himself...
...letting their hair grow long. The drive backfired when a committee caught a tough Bedouin whose tribe had worn long hair for centuries. The tribesman fought back and was stabbed to death in the fight; the leader of the committee was tried, convicted and beheaded. The committees will publicly flog anyone found drinking alcohol in public. But respect for privacy is so great in Saudi Arabia that not even the most fanatical of these protectors of public virtue would ever dream of breaking into a home...
...Knoxes were born at a happy conjunction of piety and humanity. Grandfather George Knox had been a holy terror, a Low Church Anglican minister who tried to flog the hell out of his sons. Grandfather Thomas French, in Fitzgerald's words, "was a saint ... and as exasperating as all saints," a gifted linguist and longtime missionary to India who would squat in the marketplace of Agra reading the Bible to lepers. But when Edmund Knox, sire of the four brothers, took the cloth, it was of a different cut. The tireless worker for his soot-stained Midlands flocks eventually...
...faithlessness is standard practice in the rough-and-tumble world of syndicates. Since Publisher Samuel S. McClure launched the first modern-day newspaper syndicate in 1884, the marketing of comics, columnists and other readymade editorial matter has become a large and lively industry. Some 300 syndicates are trying to flog a total of 10,000 features, from "Accent on Pets," to "Zane Grey's Best," with combined sales estimated at $100 million a year...
...recent fashion magazine illustrations. Last December Vogue magazine featured a 12-page fashion spread showing a man alternately nuzzling and beating the model. One sequence pictures the woman being battered off her feet in her $140 John Anthony jumpsuit. Says the porn paper San Francisco Ball of the trend: " 'Flog you!' may become the mating call...