Word: lashing
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...familiar succession of events came painfully alive in the mimed drama. Jesus wiping the blood from his face, writhing under the lash, stumbling beneath the weight of the cross, sweating with the pain of the nails, looked disconcertingly human. In all this abrasive immediacy, the mystery of God incarnate was largely lost, but the gain in impact was obviously a revelation to viewers. Last week, as BBC tallied up the mass of mail, Producer Michael Reddington reported that "all of it was enthusiastic, except for a few stuffy clergymen who couldn't be expected to approve...
...Lash on your desert boots, kiddies; we're off on another trip to scialytic San Francisco...
...HENRY LASH Los Angeles
...imps lope through the swamps and forests of Galicia. tempting a vain girl with an enchanted mirror, destroying a placid marriage, debauching the entire village of Frampol with dancing, vodka and banknotes. God comes slowly after, not to punish Satan for his mischief, but to apply his lash to the backs of sinful Jews...
Mirth seemed inappropriate; the nation turned to anger. The Government, always an available whipping-boy, again bent over to receive the lash. Righteous indignation rose to the occasion. Scientists, soldiers, journalists, and cracker-barrel sages fired their salvos at the nearest targets. Though the smoke hasn't yet lifted, it isn't difficult to see that the army has been fighting only itself...