Word: lashing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...much farther than any democracy has to this day. The reason has an important bearing on Beria. The 19th Century Russian satirist, Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, noted: "In every other country little boys wear trousers, but not our boys . . . everywhere else reason rules, but here only the whistle of the lash. . . . [In Russia] no independent form of social order [has] yet developed...
...Soup. In Naboomspruit, Transvaal, Solomon Macheke got three months at hard labor (and five strokes of the lash) for biting the tail off a fractious...
This year, the girl, who listens to the tipsters will come up with a gift-wrapped riding crop with handle made of deer-antler, lash of red leather, and ferrule of silver--if she doesn't fetch home something worse. Something worse is apt to be a wicker basket filled with small cakes and scented soap, each wrapped in chamois; Somaliland leopard and suede slippers, a nylon umbrella with an imported handle, or a book titled "Sporting Architecture...
...span of life." Last week the doctor told an international conference of physiologists at Oxford that he had thoroughly explored, and exploded, one highly touted hope against old age: the male hormone, testosterone. Giving testosterone to an old man, he said, is like whipping a tired horse; it may lash him to a quick and fatal collapse...
...that says they are as varied as men can be. This otherwise applicable generalization breaks down sensationally twice a year, however, with the coming of exam time, when the actions of Harvard men are as rigidly conventionalized as those of a pulp story hero. Almost uniformly, they lash themselves into a delirium of anxiety, committing breaches of form by buttonholing complete strangers from their courses and asking their thoughts on possible test questions, and scuttling busily in and out of bookstores seeking condensations of course material or outlines on How To Study. Strangely, this itinerary carries them back and forth...