Word: lashing
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What care I that some millions of wretched Israelites died tinder Pharaoh's lash or Egypt's sun? It was well that they died that I might have the pyramids to look on, or to fill a musing hour with wonderment...
Denmark, until recently Germany's model conquest, was looted with great finesse and tact, although the end results have been the same: all trade and industry of consequence controlled by Germans. The Danes felt a new lash of the Nazi whip last week, when troops began seizing furniture and household goods to be shipped back for the use of bombed-out German families...
...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...