Word: lashings
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...magisterial lash of the hand stopped the orchestra. The abashed boy & girl players looked like a tableau of The Damnation of Faust. Said Conductor Koussevitzky: "It doesn't sound." Then he added gently: "But we will arrive. We will arrive...
...well as his officers, fear and look up to him. Dashing about by car and motorcycle in the forward zones of action, he sees his men and they see him. Sometimes they have to bear the lash of his wrath, but they admire him. They have coined a new word: they say that a fallen British stronghold is gerommelt. He is also not above playing on them with false propaganda. Last winter, when Rommel had overstretched his supply lines and the British were rolling him back to Bengasi, he signaled his soldiers: "Don't let our men in Russia...
Eleanor Roosevelt. She cut them off, sharply. The newsmen, fellows who always manage to be called to work on their own moving days, did not understand. They traced the license number on the maroon convertible, noted slyly that it belonged to perennial Youth Leader Joe Lash; they noted that a Navy truck had delivered a trunk...
Into uniform at last goes pinko, 32-year-old "Youth" Leader Joseph P. Lash next week. Refused a commission in the Navy despite the support of Friend Eleanor Roosevelt, he applied for enlistment in the Army, last week was ordered to report for induction as a private, April...
...mile race, Dodds did everything a runner shouldn't do: he started out pumping like a six-day bike rider, zigzagged all over the track like a halfback, and finally-a full lap behind on the gun lap and staggering like a punch-drunk fighter-tripped Don Lash just a few yards from the tape...