Word: whip
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...much for the G.O.P. House leadership, which saw many of its members desert the standard. "The way things are going," sighed G.O.P. Whip Leslie Arends, "we couldn't put the Ten Commandments into this bill...
After Ho, North Viet Nam may well inherit a Russian-style rule by collegium. With Dong as President, the party chieftainship now held by Ho would likely go to the shadowy Le Duan, 59, the Central Committee's first secretary and chief whip behind North Viet Nam's attempt to seize South Viet Nam. General Vo Nguyen Giap, 56, the Defense Minister and man in charge of North Viet Nam's armed forces, would almost certainly join Dong and Le Duan in any leadership troika...
Boston is one of the few cities in the U.S. that allows teachers to use corporal punishment. Kozol charges that teachers sometimes employ bamboo rattans to whip the hands of their Negro charges with sadistic delight: "There are moments when the visible glint of gratification becomes undeniable in the white teacher's eyes...
Both reactions are a portent of the growing mood of neo-isolationism in the nation. Thus far, the feeling has been most clearly evident on Capitol Hill, where an influential coterie of Senators led by Minority Leader Everett M. Dirksen and Majority Whip Russell Long are pressing for the tightest protection of U.S. goods since the bad old days of the 1930 Smoot-Hawley tariff.* If the protectionist Senators-dubbed "the coalition of retreat" by Hubert Humphrey-were to succeed, they would impose strict quotas on more than 75% of dutiable U.S. imports...
McCann is edgy and truculent; Goldberg is expansive and sentimental as he reminisces about his mother's gefilte fish. In Act II, they pistol-whip Stanley with words-mad, flailing non sequiturs-charging that he "betrayed the organization." A birthday party for Stanley turns into a Walpurgisnacht, as the lights go out and Stanley goes berserk trying to throttle Meg and rape a nubile bundle of fluff called Lulu (Alexandra Berlin). Act III finds Stanley looking like a waxed zombie, Goldberg and McCann promising that "Monty" will take care of Stanley, and escorting him to something that seems suspiciously...