Word: lash
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...read in TIME, Oct. 28, under "International" the evidence gathered from the Italian white paper, about the Ethiopian customs, betraying Ethiopian atrocities. . . . It was added, "In nearly all parts of Africa the lash remains the usual punishment for natives...
...commissioner it can easily be justified. The courts have failed repeatedly to convict known gangsters, aided by shyster lawyers and self-contradictory law. These gentlemen have walked the streets, danced and drunk in the night clubs, and played golf on the municipal links without the twitch of n eye-lash-surrounded by music men and what the press euphemistically calls. "female companions". Extra-legal methods are the obvious reaction of a conscientious police commissioner to such conditions...
Significance. Ethiopians charge credibly that some of Italy's photographic evidence is faked or miscaptioned. Yet it confronts the eye with nothing not attested by the consensus of all reports by historians and recent explorers of Ethiopia. In nearly all parts of Africa the lash remains a usual punishment for natives but proud obscenity and ignorant insanitation are on the wane wherever whites have colonized...
...back only his original $750 in cash, the rest in five shares of stock whose "stated value" was $50. Promoter Pfab made the mistake of applying to register these bonds under the Securities Act of 1933. Last week his registration statement caused the Securities & Exchange Commission to lash out with some of the strongest language yet placed on its official record...
...Mississippi River should leap in flood from its channel at Memphis and lash cross-country to a new sea mouth somewhere in Florida, the chaos and horror would be as indescribable as they were in China last week when the mighty Hwangho River finally made good its threat (TIME, July 22) to quit the channel in which it had flowed since...