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Word: whip (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from way back- young Jesse Stuart grew up. He lived at the head of W-Hollow, fished in Little Sandy, began to write poetry before he was out of school. "Them Stuart youngins is plum fools." said Neighbor John Hackless. "If them was youngins of mine, I'd whip their tails with a hickory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Greenup Poet | 11/7/1938 | See Source »

...Bates, Democrat and political boss of Greenup County. Last month, in the Russell Times, Republican Jesse Stuart launched a violent attack on Congressman Bates, comparing him to Hitler, Mussolini and Stalin and declaring: "In person, he is slow-going and physically lazy - but Brother, when he cracks the whip . . . he means business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Greenup Poet | 11/7/1938 | See Source »

...than ever. "I couldn't write an editorial about Dictator Joe Bates with out getting slugged in the head," he explained, "in one of the most unfair method ever used on a man. . . . Without boasting, by using fists and skull and without weapons of any sort, I can whip Amos Allen on less street-space in Greenup than the length of his body. . . . The blood I shed from the three wounds was more than a quart. . . . For every drop of blood I shed - yes, for every red, sticky drop - I shall write 10,000 words in ink exposing this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Greenup Poet | 11/7/1938 | See Source »

Colorado's boyish Governor Teller Ammons bet Texas' boyish Governor James V. (for nothing) Allred that the University of Colorado would whip Texas' Rice Institute in a football game last January. The stakes: Pike's Peak v. Big Bend State Park on the Rio Grande. Rice won. So last week the two Governors motored to the top of Pike's Peak, which Governor Ammons thereupon handed over to Governor Allred. Governor Allred raised the Texas flag...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 31, 1938 | 10/31/1938 | See Source »

...Czechoslovakia was no longer taken seriously by the Warsaw General Staff. Polish officers squawked, "We have called the Communist bluff!" Hungary was and acted weak. Drastically disarmed after the World War as one of the defeated nations, her present rearmament is incomplete and the Czechoslovak Army probably today could whip the Hungarian Army if the two could meet alone in battle. Events showed clearly last week how Might can make two similar cases quite different...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Tragedy of Teschen | 10/10/1938 | See Source »

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