Word: whip
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...those toying with the idea of an insurgent slate was Massachusetts' timorous Senator Leverett Saltonstall, who, as Republican whip, is the only real Eisenhower supporter to hold a Senate party post. In one brief telephone call, Styles Bridges handled Saltonstall. Bridges said simply: "Lev, you better forget this funny stuff or you won't be whip much longer." As of that moment, Saltonstall was a noncombatant...
...session, and 2) therefore wished that Ikeman Frank Carlson would place him in nomination for minority leader. Taking Knowland at his word, Carlson made the nomination. The G.O.P. conference selected Knowland as minority leader, Styles Bridges as policy committee chairman, Eugene Millikin as caucus chairman, and Lev Saltonstall as whip-all without opposition. Still to be chosen was a replacement for Illinois' Senator Everett McKinley Dirksen, who is stepping down as Republican Senate campaign committee chairman...
...deformed foot is about five years old; he is out walking with his nurse in Aberdeen. Up comes another nursemaid and pipes: "What a pretty boy Byron is! What a pity he has such a leg!" The little boy's eyes blaze. Striking at her with a little whip, he cries furiously: "Dinna speak of it!" But when he meets another small boy with a deformed foot, the little monster's rage turns to laughter: "Come and see the twa laddies with the twa clubfeet going up the Broadstreet!" This boyish portrait soon gives way to a stranger...
...occupies a special place. He claimed to be "half horse, half alligator [and] a touch of the airth-quake." He had "the prettiest sister, fastest horse, and ugliest dog in the deestrict." He could "tote a steam boat up the Mississippi and over the Alleghany mountains." His father could "whip the best man in old Kaintuck, and I can whip my father." All in all, the colonel was a wow back in the 1830s-the literary prototype of the tall-talking frontiersman, the first introduction to the stage of native Western humor. But what had happened to the play that...
Miller admitted that guards used paddles on the boys, and some of them used belts to whip them. A former inmate told Addington: "They'd strip a boy to the waist and tell him to grab anything nearby while they whipped him loud with leather straps. We were told to watch, but we wouldn't. We would hold up our hands and cover our eyes...