Word: whip
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Flying at 550 m.p.h. without a G-suit, a pilot could black out in a one-mile turn. But the best jets in Korea whip along far faster than that, and can fly smoothly through tighter turns. With a G-suit, the jet jockey can fight his plane to the limit. He can take the seven Gs developed in a 4,000-ft. turn at 650 m.p.h...
...favorite theme is the bad old days of predatory landowners and conscienceless capitalists. Any writer who follows this theme strictly is almost bound to fill his pages with the typed, dusty characters of proletarian fiction, Mr. Moneybags the Magnate, Mr. Whip the Overseer, Mr. Steel the Informer, Mr. Dawn the Red, Miss Cominform the Workers' Belle...
...mahogany capitalists and their overseers have only one aim: to make each slave fell four tons of timber a day. They have found that flogging with a bull whip has a poor effect on physique, so instead, they "hang" the workers when necessary, i.e., leave them suspended from a tree by ropes, where red ants, ticks, chiggers and mosquitoes can liven them up. Hanging is done at night so as to add to the physical anguish "the unspeakable, inexplicable horror . . . that the Indian feels of phantoms and specters...
...effort to whip up support in China, and the Communist countries which supply her armies, for a breakoff of truce talks at Panmunjom and a resumption of the war in Korea. tj Russia, now that it is itself making atom bombs (and thus can no longer accuse Western "warmongers" of being the only ones to make the dread weapon), had to create some other dastardly form of warfare which it could say was a Western monopoly. This is a British Foreign Office theory...
...officials read this as one sign that Russia was not prepared to go to war. In the light of the latest intelligence assessment, the bacteriological warfare propaganda took on an evil glow. It is just the kind of campaign which a totalitarian state might be expected to use to whip its inhabitants into...