Word: lashing
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...hours before the Munich pact was signed, aged (81), ailing Pius XI told the world: "We offer our life, this poor earthly life that peace may win." Two years later his successor, Pope Pius XII, began to stretch Vatican neutrality to the breaking point by using the radio to lash out at Naziism. broadcast sermons to the warring world...
...madness in all this mad comedy was that Gogol himself thought he was defending the system he undermined. One critic got the point that Gogol had been trying to make. "Preacher of the lash," he called the muddled genius. After his first success. Gogol left Russia in a huff, spent twelve nostalgic years in self-imposed exile. He made a pilgrimage to the Holy Land, slowly developed a religious mania and fell into the hands of a fanatic Russian Orthodox priest who persuaded Gogol that art was sinful. Thus an artist who all his life had been dissatisfied with...
...Pearce, the desire to be rid of the baby usually subsides. The G.P., he suggested, can often coax a woman through those first three months. Suicide threats pose a knottier problem. They cannot be ignored. Yet often the woman who voices them most vociferously is using them to lash out at those around her and is not likely to carry them out. The challenge to the psychiatrist is to judge when the threats are a reliable warning signal...
...into an arena where 10,000 had filled all seats; half as many more were waiting to listen from outside. Introduced by Pennsylvania's campaigning U.S. Senator Jim Duff (see below), "Mamie Eisenhower's husband" apologized that Mamie was kept in Washington by a cold, proceeded to lash Democratic "partisan oratory that has concealed or twisted the facts" on small business, the cost of living, schools and labor. Said Ike: "I wonder what kind of political children they think we are-and what kind of a man do they think I am?" So great was the crush after...
Moving on to Washington at week's end to lash out at Dwight D. Eisenhower and hole up for consultations with Old Crony Harry Vaughan, Truman got to talking about his place in the Democratic campaign. "I've told 'em not to send me any place where I could do them any harm," he said. New Jersey's Democratic U.S. Representative T. James Tumulty thought he knew just the place. "Send him," he telegraphed Adlai Stevenson, "on a slow boat to China...