Word: lashes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Above the broad Tappan Zee, above Haverstraw, above the ledge-hugging concrete strip of U. S. Route 9 W rises a palisade actually called High Tor. Storms lash it furiously. And Playwright Anderson believes that the airplane beacon on its top was twice bowled over by stormy Dutchmen marooned for three centuries on High Tor, waiting for a ship to take them back to Amsterdam from the dark side of the world...
...well. . . . She talks garrulously, but on the whole pretty sensibly. She is very open to instruction. We shall improve her. She dresses badly. . . . She has enough money to be quite independent. She rules me as only American women rule men, and I cower before her. Lord! how she would lash me if she read the above description...
...hoist rope caught around his ankle, flung him head down. Then the rushing wind and the force of his fall carried Bareiter in a hair-raising arc. Three times he was swung out in the air, three times crashed against the stack before he could seize the guy wire, lash himself to it with his belt...
...sperm during shipment over to his crack veterinarian, Dr. Fred W. Miller. From the bulls Dr. Miller extracted semen containing 1,000,000,000 spermatozoa, mixed the fluid with an equal amount of sugar solution, chilled the tubes to 34° F. (spermatozoa kept in warm temperatures lash their tails until they get tired, die). Next he buried the tubes in diatomaceous earth, a good insulator, packaged the whole in a buttermilk container...
Inasmuch as most of the underbrush has been cleared out of the Yard, no solution seems to present itself. Local potentates who lash the planned economy have certainly shown themselves incapable of intelligent foresight. One regrets that the Tercentenary Celebration could not be held in the dust Bowl, but this also seems difficult. Perhaps the next three hundred years will see the answer...