Word: whip
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...easy to find-such as they were. Days earlier, the Egyptian Kings had played stickball (a street version of baseball) with the Jesters. The Kings had lost, refused to pay off a 50?-a-man bet on the game. Aroused by the Jesters' protests, the Kings decided to whip a few Jesters. Mike Farmer and Roger McShane were the first boys that the Knights met on their caper-although, as far as the police could learn, neither victim was a member of any gang...
...Tories in the House tried to shout down the loan. If government aid were needed, argued Tory Leader George Drew, let it go to a company controlled by Canadians. Minister Howe bulled ahead; the Liberals invoked a rarely used and unpopular closure motion to shut off debate and whip the bill through...
Bloody Recollection. Ike's cautious opening of the door to a Zhukov-Wilson conference-he shied away from any hint of personal involvement-blossomed into international headlines, provoked widespread, mixed reaction. Montana's Mike Mansfield, Democratic whip in the Senate, urged Ike to go farther, meet Zhukov face to face; such a meeting would "weigh heavily in the President's fav.or. I'm certain that the President would not be taken in." Western diplomats leaked worries that Ike's friendly remarks about Zhukov, suppressor of the bloody Hungarian revolt, might kill a U.S.-sponsored United...
...this reason, moonlighting is likely to increase with shorter hours. For the economy as a whole, moonlighting helps ease the tight labor market, steps up purchasing power. And despite their campaigning, unions have not been able to whip up much enthusiasm for a drive against dual jobholding on health grounds. In Los Angeles this spring, a Western Industrial Medical Association declined to condemn dual jobholding, instead voted to give the problem more study after several members hailed moonlighters as heirs to the spirit of the nation's founders, insisted that hard work never hurt anybody...
...These were good men," says Author Linna of both the dead and the living. Fate had laid the whip of defeat across their backs, but it also released them from responsibility for the future, and they were content to sit back and watch the victors destroy their victory. Says one exhausted survivor when the fighting is over and the politicians take command: "Speeches aren't going to help anything. When your powder's all gone, it's better to keep your mouth shut than to go spouting about the rights of small nations. A dog raises...