Word: whip
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...another writes a letter; a third, trying to escape, is hobbled by a sharpshooter's bullet. With a borrowed knife he extracts the bullet from his leg. Then they are strung up from the backs of horses, with the brave, right-thinking Confederate major forcing his son to whip one of the animals out from under them. At.dawn, on the way back the lynching party meets the bona fide sheriff, who has proof that their victims were innocent. In a muted, finely directed closing scene, the two rangers ride away to deliver the letter written by the second...
...Stress. This week Under Secretary Patterson revealed that the lessons of combat were not the only factors which forced production changeovers. The Army could still use plenty of the weapons whose production was now being reduced. But necessity's whip was laid on the Army's back last year by the War Production Board, which ordered a cut in 1943's armed-forces production schedule from $93 billions to $75 billions...
...week Congressmen pushed, shoved, pulled and prodded at Muley. Nine Republican committee members got up a round-robin petition to whip him into action. Seventy House Democrats goaded him with another petition...
Aldo Nadi, 44, is a handsome, steel whip of a man, so slim (6 ft, 128 lb.) that on the fencing strip he bears a strong resemblance to his weapon. Some fencers consider him the greatest swordsman who ever lived. The son of a famous Italian Maître d'Armes, Aldo began fencing at four, won his first title at twelve, is acknowledged the world's finest foilsman...
...first glance, such an oath-practically making each Bishop a local Franco agent-would seem superfluous in Catholic Spain. But people in the Basque and Catalan provinces (hotbeds of Loyalism during the Civil War) still dislike El Caudillo, show it openly now & then. To whip these malcontents into line, Franco has adopted the age-old custom of giving the Church a role to play in his political drama...