Word: whip
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...opening the case, Chancellor Brüning could, under Article 48 of the German Constitution, make himself virtual dictator of the Reich for a period of three months which must pass before a new Reichstag could be elected and assembled. Crack! went the invisible Hindenburg whip and the Reichstag deputies in their confusion and buzzing excitement resembled an arena-full of balky bulls...
...Nebraska's Senator Norris in Washington last week: "I remember when the Senator [Watson] was 'whip' in the House. I bear on my body the marks of the senator's 'whip' even to this day." (Laughter...
Cries of "You're no leader, resign!" were hurled at Mr. Lloyd George when eight of his Liberals sat, arms folded, refusing to vote with him against the coal bill, causing Liberal whip Sir William Edge who voted for the coal bill to resign...
...this week, at Los Angeles, the National Committee on Federal Legislation for Birth Control will conduct a Western States Conference on Birth Control & Population Problems, to whip up interest in the national campaign among people in Oregon, Washington, California, Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, Nevada, Colorado, Utah, Arizona and New Mexico...
When the Russians arrive in Senlis in 1814, Burin, now a Count, is with the army. He recovers his long-lost whip, buys the coronet, takes them back to his estate in Russia. The Burin family fortunes gradually go from bad to worse. Nicholas, the last and one of the worst Burins, saves only the whip and the coronet from the wreck of the 1917 Revolution. He fights on against the Reds, is cornered in a Caucasian village and killed. The whip is buried with him. The coronet, stolen by one of his men and sold in Moscow, is bought...