Word: whip
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What to do with a slightly deaf, incipiently bronchial, incurably mettlesome aviator? The Chinese knew. Thy were at war with Japan in 1937, and they invited him over to whip their hodgepodge of an air force into battle trim. Now he was in his natural element. He sent radio-equipped coolies to the far frontiers to crank out warning of every Nipponese air strike. He saw the big show coming, and by Pearl Harbor, bossed an air force of trained American volunteers, which never numbered more than 55 flyable P-40s and 80 pilots. For $600 a month...
...whip up a sense of crisis, Communist agitators marshaled massive demonstrations against U.S. and British embassies behind the Iron Curtain. In a violent outburst of a kind unseen since the Bolshevik Revolution 40 years ago, 100,000 Muscovites marched on the ten-story U.S. embassy building in Tchaikovsky Street, smashed its front windows in a barrage of stones, bricks and green ink. Far to the east in Peking, half a million men and women marched through the night making a racket for no Americans to hear...
...Indispensability. The museum that Butler runs concentrates solely on American art; thanks largely to the $1,500,000 endowment of Founder Butler, it got in early on collecting U.S. paintings. Grandfather Butler spent 40 years tracking down his favorite painting for the collection: Winslow Homer's Snap the Whip (TIME, Aug. 23, 1954). The Butler Institute today has 635 oils, 500 prints, 365 watercolors and drawings, including top works by John Singleton Copley, James Peale, William Harnett, Thomas Eakins and Albert Ryder-far more than enough to fill the two-story museum's nine galleries...
...came to an abrupt end. Iv Eng Seng fled from the embassy with her month-old baby boy to a London nursing home and complained that Sary had severely beaten her "for minor mistakes." Nonsense, replied Ambassador Sary gallantly: "I corrected her by hitting her with a Cambodian string whip. I never hit her on the face, always across the back and the thighs-a common sort of punishment in my country." Besides, said Sary, warming to his subject, he had every right under Cambodian law (he meant Cambodian custom) to whip the girl, because the embassy is "Cambodia...
...father, "Big Henry'' Harris, a 237-lb., 47-year-old bear who has been called "the best fist, knee, knife and heel fighter in the territory." Big Henry raised his two sons, Roy and Tobe, as fighters, roamed saloons for daring comers, now tells Roy to whip Patterson "or I'll whup...