Word: whip
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Broken Bonds. The Archbishop's answer split Macmillan's government down the middle. Ted Heath, chief Government Whip in the House of Commons, flatly warned the Cabinet that he could not guarantee the support of Tory right-wingers if Makarios were released on these terms. The Marquess of Salisbury, 63-year-old scion of the Cecil family, who have advised England's monarchs since the days of the first Queen Elizabeth, was even more adamant. Inflexibly, the tough-minded elder statesman pointed out that Makarios had "deliberately refrained" from meeting Britain's conditions for his release...
...primary condition the recognition of its independence." Said Bourguiba: "We just have to end this vicious circle." Added a Moroccan minister: "It's fine to know how to throw a grenade, but you have to know where and when to throw it." With the aid of the Moroccans, whip-sharp Premier Bourguiba began working on a formula of self-determination by which the Algerians might compromise profitably with France, as Morocco and Tunisia had done. Tunis had settled for the formula of "internal autonomy"; for Moroccans the happy phrase was "independence within interdependence." Now Bourguiba proposed a referendum...
...still sounding as if he'd rather grip a bar of soap than a microphone: FESS (Davy Crockett) PARKER, who drawls some uncowmanlike mush ("Ah got me a purty woman's love") in Wringle Wrangle (Disneyland), manages to keep face with the kiddies by cracking a whip and hollering every few bars...
...today who will be tomorrow's old literary lions. With a fiery and mildly turbercular look in the eye, a copy of Keats beneath the arm, sandals on the feet, and a beard, one cannot be denied. The musical approach is more subtle. After five minutes in the interview, whip out a tuning fork, smile delightedly, whip out a pad, and compose like mad for a few minutes. Then resume former composure, quite calmly...
...Charlie Shedd dropped to his knees during a morning meditation in Oklahoma and prayed: "Dear God, I've tried for 15 years to whip this problem of obesity . . . I've been on banana diets and eaten red meat. I've taken pills and bought reducing belts. I've read books and attended lectures, joined clubs and enrolled in courses. But I'm still fat ... I need help...