Word: lashing
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...Senate, Vermont's soundly liberal Ralph Flanders, 73, is known as a quiet man. He makes few speeches, seldom reaches for a headline. But last week Republican Flanders, in his quiet way, applied the lash to Joe McCarthy...
...mixed blessings of world leadership is the U.S. preoccupation with its many and varied allies. Around the volatile Italians, the politically neurotic French and the sensitive Spaniards, there is never a dull moment. Even those stout hearts of oak, the British, sometimes lash about and quiver like the restless bamboo...
Rangers found them in the morning, but it was too late. Lindbergh helped lash the body on the rescuers' toboggan and led the way back down the mountain. Newsmen and photographers were waiting, but he ignored them as he pulled his friend's body toward the coroner's truck. Then, turning his back on newsmen, he sprinted-down the slippery road to a friend's car and sped away...
...record of medical achievement. Says Boston's Dr. James Howard Means* in Doctors, People, and Government (Little, Brown; $3.50): "The impulse to reform in medical public affairs comes usually from without, and resistance to it from within the majority fold of organized medicine ... It is only under the lash of public opinion that organized medicine makes any social progress...
...conquerors they make an unpretty lot. They rape and loot, lash naked women to tanks, destroy works of art, try to outdo their late conquerors. But like all occupiers, they soon find that their lives have been bound up with those of the occupied. Two hussars, Sanders and Saint-Anne, finally surrender unconditionally to a handsome, sensual girl named Rita. Sanders had met her in what was then a conventional way: he raped her. Sanders becomes Author Nimier's prototype of the fundamentally good Frenchman gone wrong. He is cynical, bitter, confused; he is also a great reader...