Word: lash
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...Josef Stalin does not think so. He knows that Russia is a land of unlimited possibilities, almost unscratched resources and largely unused manpower. . . . Under the lash of his will I believe that the program outlined . . . will be accomplished. . . . Moreover M. Stalin has behind him young Russia, that never knew Tsarist slavery and is free from the faults and vices of servile psychology. He and they have a daring which Danton declared was a guide to victory and a faith which one greater than Danton said could move mountains...
...What to do? He climbed to two thousand feet, gave the controls to the mechanic, who knew but little of piloting, broke a hole in the fuselage bottom, crawled through head first. Hanging by his feet he ingeniously used his belt, a piece of rope and a shoelace to lash the broken gear together. The repair sufficed to let him land safely at Hartford...
...Austen Chamberlain, were a few of the pixie's mischiefs. Mentally Mr. Snowden is honest, alert, fearless. Long years of suffering from a spinal affliction have warped him physically, reduced him to hobbling upon two canes, given his drawn face its ascetic pallor. If he did not lash out savagely at his enemies they might treat him with a pitying consideration which he could not endure. As Chancellor of the Exchequer in the 1924 Labor Cabinet of Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald, he won a sort of right to criticize the budgets of succeeding Chancellors, to sear and slash...
...from the vales of Kashmir as for a pure white woman strayed out of Europe. Last week His Highness the Maharaja Sir Hari Singh of Jammu and Kashmir dealt drastically with the situation by increasing the penalty for abducting Kashmiri women from three to seven years imprisonment, plus the lash. Anxious to cooperate with His Highness, the Government of British India agreed to make the offense of abducting women or children of either sex from Jammu and Kashmir extraditable. In the wicked Indian cities of Calcutta and Madras what might be called the bootleg price of abducted Kashmiri trebled...
...yard relay: Won by Standish (Q. W. Burke, A. L. Castle, W. O. Faxon, W. R. Timken); second, Gore (H. L. Lash, B. Moore, L. M. Patterson, R. K. Vincent); third, Smith (F. Lewis, A. L. Mason, S. E. Shikes, R. J. Strauss); fourth, McKinlock (R. A. Biggs, T. J. Ewing, J. W. Brummel, J. S. Hartwell), Time...