Word: whip
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sixteen times against the enemy! Sixteen times expose your backside as you smack into the hell and never mind what may become of you, watching the bullets of the enemy machine guns whip between your legs...
...Capitol to the Treasury [over a mile]. In the small hours of the morning, they were still there; the population of a doomed city, listening for the thundering guns, the pounding cavalry, the shouts of the victorious rebel army." It never came. The Second Invasion. Instead, McClellan came to whip the shattered army into shape, to snub Lincoln, drive out Scott, feud with Stanton, end up in the Chickahominy swamps with thousands of his perfect army dead. New hordes invaded Washington: contractors, inventors, émigrés, cranks...
...argument had ceased. Speaker Rayburn and his aides-tall, slack-jawed John McCormack of Massachusetts, the majority leader, and round-shouldered, wavy-haired Pat Boland of Pennsylvania, the whip-had done all they could. They had made frantic telephone calls to Democratic leaders in more than a dozen States, begging for additional pressure on reluctant members. Some Democratic State chairmen came to town, bringing plums and whips. In Vichy the Government had delivered itself to Hitler that afternoon. The U.S. Government had just renewed a warning to Japan. But against the bill to keep the U.S. Army under arms...
...break into the closed circle of normal business relationships (where longstanding "connections" hold the whip hand) OPM may "require" a steel customer to place his order with "a particular producer...
...whip-smart Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels was not releasing his story for U.S consumption. The Craft in Europe has very different implications from its meaning in Britain and the U.S. In many countries the Masons have been considered for centuries a highly subversive, clandestine group, or at least a tight, potent, political unit, which in some nations (like France) has for years dominated the Government from behind the scenes...