Word: whip
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...There is a great deal of criticism in the cloakrooms . . . There is a feeling that the Democratic forces are cracking the whip . . . There are some of us who happen to be prima donnas enough to object . . . We are not going to be treated as grade-school children by a strong schoolmaster who says, 'If you don't do what we tell you to do we are going to take you out into the woodshed...
...little boy who found his allergy useful against his parents was 6½-year-old Jeff. He told the investigators: "When they punish me and whip me I want to slam the door and break things and run away and get out. But I can't ... I can't do nothing to my father and mother. I just can't. I just want to get out. But I can't. I get sick. Then my mother brings me stuff and my daddy does, too, to make me better." Eddie, going-on-five, was gleeful when...
...first disrupted the flow of young ballplayers up through the minors eight years ago, not a single slugging first-baseman had reached the majors. The dearth of new catchers was just as serious. There wasn't a hard-hitting catcher in either league or one who could whip the ball down to second-base with the authority of a Bill Dickey or a Mickey Cochrane...
...never intended as an "operational airplane"; it is more like a flying wind tunnel. Its big advantage is that its rockets, which produce a thrust of 6,000 Ibs., are not weakened, like "air-breathing" engines, by high speed or high altitude. The X-1 can whip up to where the air is thin and still have power to pick up speed as long as the fuel lasts...
...Peiping's municipal workers: "I often make mistakes and I welcome correction. But I would not welcome it chalked on the toilet wall." Other Red delegates: General Lin Piao, conqueror of Manchuria; Lin Po-chu, chairman of the Communist Shensi-Kansu-Ningsia border government; Li Weihan, Communist party whip and negotiator at Marshall mission conferences two years...