Word: lashing
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...SOMETHING in this family binds it together in its distress--a love beneath childlike dreams of baseball and airplanes, the roughhousing and wristwrestling. The "liquid dynamite" in Weston's veins flows for Wesley and Emma also, and they lash out furiously against the invaders threatening the simple foundation of their lives. The system must prevail, however, and in this big, barren land it often does so brutally...
...problem is that everyone wants to do that: the Household Cavalry, Special Air Service, New Scotland Yard, as well as antiterrorist experts flown in from Israel, West Germany and Japan. While the new Prime Minister dithers, responsibility for the rescue is divided between the S.A.S. and the admirable Jack Lash, head of the Yard's antiterrorist squad and holder of the George Cross, the highest decoration for gallantry awarded by the Crown to a civilian. Meanwhile, the invaders have imprisoned Her Majesty and a young lady-in-waiting in the palace's royal apartments. Almost as pressing...
Black leaders lash out at Jews, and Jews lash back...
...first great Florida land boom in the early 1920s and the second boom of the 1950s, the beach's problems were compounded by unrestrained growth. Developers put up mansions, hotels and condominiums almost at the water's edge, atop the dunes that protect the island from the lash of the sea. After a devastating hurricane in 1926, many property owners erected groins, jetty-like projections, some of them stretching 150 ft. into the water. They had two purposes: to provide privacy and to prevent sand from being washed away from one place to another along the shoreline...
This was the post-Camp David Jimmy Carter, a President eager to assert his leadership and to lash out at critics, of whom, a coast-to-coast survey by TIME bureau chiefs showed, there were a formidable number. The subject of his opening cannonade was the oil industry's effort to get Congress to reduce the windfall profits tax, which Carter hopes to use to finance a multibillion-dollar energy program. Said Carter: "There will be a massive struggle to gut the windfall profits tax. I want to serve notice tonight that I will do everything in my power...