Word: whip
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...strong as "50 acres of horseradish." Other Congressmen are appalled at the possible result: the Wallace phenomenon may throw the election into the House of Representatives. The outcome could foil most voters' wishes and upset the two-party system in Congress. To House Majority Whip Hale Boggs, "the idea is absolute anarchy...
...joined the move to upset Charles Halleck as minority leader in 1965. Both were replaced by Michigan's Gerald Ford. When Ford wanted to give Goodell his reward, Republican veterans gave Goodell his comeuppance. Overriding Ford, they refused to make the ambitious, somewhat abrasive Goodell either the Republican whip or head of the Policy Committee...
...first. Yet his gratitude may be misplaced. It was Johnson who years ago in the Senate played a major role in persuading Humphrey "to stop kicking the wall," as Hubert puts it; to abandon solitary crusades for hopeless causes. Once he grasped the lesson, Humphrey advanced to Senate majority whip and then Vice President under Johnson's tutelage. He also took on a good deal of L.B.J.'s coloration. Though never as devious or secretive as Johnson, Humphrey became remarkably like him in his desire to please everybody, his ambivalence, his addiction to hyperbole, his fidelity to the power blocs...
...HACK: The source is England's hackney horse, a creature that was let out for hire; it was usually mistreated, and became dull, broken down and exhausted. The word is particularly adaptable to politics, because political hacks are disciplined by a party whip...
...ripples across the roughest terrain like a huge, double-jointed caterpillar. It can cling to 60° slopes, climb over boulders and fallen timber, push its way through water, mud or snow. On less rigorous straightaways, it can whip along at speeds of up to 65 m.p.h. Built by Lockheed engineers as a high-performance, wheel-driven answer to the tank, the curious transport is fittingly called the Twister...