Word: lashing
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...steelmakers complain of inroads by the Western Europeans; the French snap crossly at the Belgians; the Germans lash out at the British, the French, the Belgians and the Swedes; and no one, of course, has a kind word for Japan's low-cost producers. Last week, alarmed that undercutting foreigners have grabbed more than 21% of the German steel market, German steelmen vowed to risk a loss to meet the price of any cut-rate competitor...
...Lass & Lash. The weirdest tale of all was told by Vickie Barrett, one of the few performers who made no bones about being a prostitute. Drab, docile Vickie (nee Janet Barker) testified that Ward had picked her up one night and taken her back to his apartment to have intercourse with a man who was wait ing naked in the bedroom. In all, said the prosecution, Vickie had some 30 assignations in Ward's apartment but never saw any proceeds; the osteopath pocketed the money, said she, on the pretext of saving...
...naval Pilate; he reveals Vere's humanity subtly, and when Billy's wonderful and cruel farewell rings out, Vere stands destroyed by what he has had to do. Robert Ryan is the terrible Mister Claggart who presides so zealously at floggings: once, after counting out ten lashes while a sailor is whipped, his mouth frames a silent "eleven." Then, standing alone at the rail, he continues to strike his own flank with his rattan crop, privately counting out lash after lash in seething frustration. Ustinov, who produced and directed the film and helped write the script...
...crack at the British still is sure to wow the crowds. Last week, KANU's ambitious Secretary-General Tom Mboya, 32, rose at a rally to lash out at the government because it imported the Duke and Duchess of Kent to inaugurate Nairobi's new television station. "It's disgusting that they should open the center when Kenya has six million Africans with their own leaders," huffed Mboya. "All around us were white faces, and we were only little black specks on the scene...
...practice as a Philadelphia trial lawyer. He specialized in libel law-and it is one of his great political assets that he knows precisely how far he can legally go in his assaults on his opponents. A Marine hero again in World War II, Dilworth returned to Philadelphia to lash out at the Republican corruption that had gripped the city for 63 years. From street corners he shouted the names of madams, gamblers, crooks-and the names of the cops and officials who protected them...