Word: lashing
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...fiscal instability and the Rhodesia crisis, to become involved in the Vietnam war. Prime Minister Wilson tried once to be helpful by sending the Davies mission to Hanoi. But England wants to pull its troops out of Malaysia, and no doubt a good many Labour backbenchers would like to lash out more loudly against the war. But until Britain can become less dependent on U.S. help to steady the pound, their protest will be unheeded...
...experiments to determine the effects of the lash, Dr. Ommaya's group of researchers produced whiplash injuries in monkeys. A compressed-air gun, fired behind the animals' heads, created the snap movement. The monkeys had been anesthetized before the test, and then were killed painlessly before they could recover consciousness. Autopsies showed that whiplash bruised some of the animals' brains, caused swelling and hemorrhaging. In several cases, it also injured nerve centers in the brain stem that are important in controlling heartbeat, circulation and breathing...
...years ago, Britain helped lash together a sprawl of Asian real estate into a federation called Malaysia. It was born in the high hope of providing economic unity, political stability, and a bulwark against expansion by Red China or Indonesia. But there was a fatal flaw that doomed the scheme from the start. Last week Singapore, fifth largest port in the world, broke away, and once again a British-backed regional federation was in tatters.- The flaw was a clash of peoples, of religions, of languages, of cultures. Put in the simplest terms, the Malays-largely rural, uneducated and unenterprising...
...those days," recalls an ADC officer, "we were begging and borrowing whatever we could." Except for a few F-86s, the ADC had no interceptors or all-weather fighters. Its radar system included many "lash-up" sites, so called because the radar was literally lashed to the tops of telephone poles. Where there were gaps in the radar coverage, a Ground Observer Corps of housewives and farmers, gas station attendants and even commuters stood ready to phone in aircraft sightings...
Which are become a lash and scourge...