Word: lashings
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Washington's embarrassment served as an excuse for Syrian President Hafez Assad to lash out at U.S. Middle East policies. Damascus already has Scud missiles capable of striking Israel. The Scud-Cs believed to be part of the Ho's cargo have a greater range, at more than 300 miles, than the Scud-Bs already in Syria's arsenal, but they would not significantly alter the balance of power in the Middle East. While denying that the Ho was delivering new missiles -- a denial echoed by North Korea -- Assad attacked Washington's efforts to "strip the Arabs of their weapons...
Muhammad didn't limit himself to divisions along racial lines. He made sure to lash out at women, Jews and sell-out Blacks of the "White establishment"--few groups escaped the minister's vitriol...
...clear that his listeners sensed that committment. They heard him lash out against Political Action Committees, incumbent politicians, Republicans, Democrats, defense spending and Tom Brokaw--and loved every minute...
...blockade or invasion. But Britannia's capacity to rule the waves, as Massie also points out, was somewhat illusory; the Royal Navy during much of Victoria's reign was largely unfit for combat. Weighed down by moribund traditions that Winston Churchill acidly defined as "rum, sodomy, and the lash," British tars were ill fed and worse led. While their social-climbing officers fopped and preened, sailors spent long days at sea scrubbing decks and polishing brightwork, or wielding cutlasses in boarding drills as if they were still in the age of sail. Meanwhile, gunnery practice was cursory even though naval...
None of this would be especially remarkable, except that by the end of the week fewer people were praising the courts for saving the child than were defending the natural rights of parents to lash their children to radiators. As the Marreros tell it, they had tried everything to keep Linda in school, off drugs and out of the local crack house. When all else failed, Eliezer, a building superintendent, went down to the local hardware store and bought a 15-ft. chain. If the Marreros could not drive drugs from their door, they could at least lock their daughter...