Word: whip
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...press and Parliament. To a reporter, a BBC official said with historic detachment: "We shall certainly play one of the Russian anthems. The question is: what is the Russian anthem?" BBC compromised by playing a recording of a Red Air Force song, Plane, My Plane! Labor's Chief Whip Lord Strabolgi slyly reminded the House of Lords that The Internationale was a stand-by of Labor Party meetings, that he had seen Minister of Home Security Herbert Morrison singing "with great gusto and evident enjoyment...
...size and strength-and told me that I must confess that night. . . . The strong-arm men removed me to the torture room, and the inquisition-which was to last all night-began. First I was beaten repeatedly about the head and this was followed by 50 lashes with a whip. . . . Then I was flattened on my back, my head was jerked back and water was poured into my nostrils. . . . Next they strapped me into the 'tiger's chair'-an ordinary chair anchored to the floor. Bricks were placed under my feet and piled...
...manatee, like some twelve score other animals Crile has collected from Lake Tanganyika to Hudson Bay in the past 15 years, has its excised brain, heart, thyroid and adrenal glands on display. Ringmaster Crile's animal act is more elaborate than any Carl Hagenbeck ever cracked a whip over...
...late 18th Century, when Great Britain frowned on the slave trade, the port became the sanctuary of Africans who feared chains and the slave driver's whip; and so the place was called Freetown. But because of its malarial climate this black man's refuge was also called "The White Man's Grave." In World War II Freetown has earned a new distinction: it is the busiest spot in West Africa...
...that time, Coach Love plans to start the old shuffling game again in hopes that he can whip together the best possible crew to face the big Red, and finally the Elis. So when we next hear from the Yardlings, the picture may be completely changed...