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Word: lashing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ground Forces at adjoining Fort Stotsenberg. The Navy will keep its big lash-up on Leyte Gulf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Lash-Up | 3/24/1947 | See Source »

...British seaman dropped dead under the stinging lash of a cat o' nine tails, Captain William Bligh of H.M.S. Bounty said, "No laws are more just than those governing the conduct...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Captain's Table | 3/17/1947 | See Source »

...guessed what social force (the lash or superstition) called forth so mighty an effort, or what happened to the people who built Fortress Nanmatol. Director Peter H. Buck of Honolulu's Bishop Museum (whose mother was a New Zealand Maori) hopes the U.S. will clear up Japan's neglected mystery and retell the tale of the daring, industrious primitives who sailed the Pacific sea reaches millenniums...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Diggers, Jan. 27, 1947 | 1/27/1947 | See Source »

...holdovers from last year's squad, Mariaschin in generally considered as good a defenseman an the Crimson has had in the past five years, both for his ability to handle enemy forwards, and for his whip-lash accuracy on long set shots...

Author: By Stanley J. Friedman, | Title: Mariaschin Chosen as New Cage Captain | 12/7/1946 | See Source »

...contribution," he said magnanimously, "to our nation's economy, which is being imperiled by the stupidity and selfish greed of the coal operators and associated financial interests and by demagogues who have tried to lash the public mind into a state of hysteria...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Moth & The Flame | 5/20/1946 | See Source »

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