Word: lashes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pressure from Rome, especially at this time, must be enormous but you have betrayed your democratic heritage in bowing to the papal lash...
...Said Mississippi's poodle-haired John Rankin: "While Communism is being driven from Russia under the scorpion lash of an outraged public opinion . . . it has been powerful enough in this country to force this measure to a vote...
...with handsome Lady Harris (his second wife, whom he married in 1938) and their four-year-old daughter Jackie, he can indeed be gentle. But men who serve with him learn sooner or later that his gentle face is a sort of booby trap, luring the unwary to the lash of his tongue...
...Republican opposition in Press and Congress is often flipped an exciting lure at which to snap while big things are being done. Example: the tremendous rise the President got out of the Press and Congress when he took his secret trip around the U.S. in 1942 and returned to lash out at "Washington"; during the ensuing indignation, the Administration pursued its serious business unopposed...
...also madi to the Chinese. Japanese propaganda de clares that the Allies are not fulfilling their promises of aid, that U.S. forces live like kings while Chinese troops grovel like beggars. Whereas the Japanese economic tactic was once plunder, it is now construction and trade. The Japanese armies lash out, not to demolish the Chinese armies, but to scorch Free Chinese earth, as in the Lake District. There are also appeals to the future: whereas the Allies have promised to give up extraterritoriality after the war, Tojo's government announced that on March 30 Japan would give up concessions...