Word: lashing
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...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...
Ground Forces at adjoining Fort Stotsenberg. The Navy will keep its big lash-up on Leyte Gulf...
...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...
...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...