Word: lashing
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Tornadoes are notoriously unpredictable. It is impossible to tell, just by looking, whether a tall black cloud will merely drop a shower, or whether it will lash out with a twister. Last week the U.S. Weather Bureau was on the trail of a promising way of telling in advance which of the tall black clouds are apt to be pregnant with tornadoes...
...writer living in Paris, offers the richer literary experience. The selections range from a Stendhal love story, as intricate as a Japanese tea ceremony, to a fragment of Swiftian satire by Baudelaire on the suicide of a Parisian street urchin. In between, Balzac, Zola and Guy de Maupas sant lash at the favorite whipping boy of French letters, the French middle class. Best yarns in the book are stories of simple nobodies by Gustave Flaubert and Joris-Karl Huysmans...
...near Colorado Springs. A onetime cowpuncher, he took charge of the penitentiary in 1932, quickly became the boy wonder of U.S. wardens. Discarding traditional convicts' stripes, he served good food, set up shops to keep prisoners busy and make the prison pay. Fond of the whip and the lash, he boasted that he was tougher than any convict, two years ago was indicted (but never convicted) for flogging five would-be escapees...
Stassen, who had been waiting his chance to lash back at McCarthy ever since a year ago when they tangled over McCarthy's private negotiations with Greek shipowners, had chosen his time well. A year ago, the President did not back Stassen up, instead allowed Secretary of State Dulles to conciliate McCarthy at a sacrifice of Stassen's prestige...
...Lawrence, Kans., Miler Wes Santee ignored his specialty to set an intercollegiate record of 8:58 for two miles. Old (1936) record: 8:58.3, set by Indiana's Don Lash...