Word: whip
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...aborigines had invented neither the wheel nor the plow, nor had they imagined the whip. The same reproach had been felt before. The Tahitians had burst into tears when Cook had a thief flogged on the rigging of his ship. All these things have been written of before -Australia's natural history, Pacific exploration, and colonization. It is Moorehead's peculiar talent to keep the land, the natives and the newcomers in mind at the same time, so that what may have been regarded as mere event takes on the aspect of a moral drama. Historical journalism here...
...World Health Organization and UNESCO. He traveled extensively, attended the Geneva disarmament talks, had his celebrated 81-hour Kremlin exchange with Nikita Khrushchev in 1958 and became chairman of the Sen ate disarmament subcommittee, whose recommendations helped pave the way for the 1963 nuclear test ban treaty. Appointed majority whip...
...theory, plus detailed, fictitious depositions. After Yale Professor Fleming James lectured on "reasonable standard of care," they watched courtroom maestros examine "Thomas Covington III," an alert lawyer-actor who insisted that he had taken every precaution before burning grass on his property. A sudden wind gust just happened to whip up the flames that incinerated Neighbor Harvey Williams' $75,000 house, stables and horses...
...every Peronista has been glad to see her. Perón sent her over partly to whip into line those faction chiefs who want to move on without the aging strongman, notably tough Augusto ("El Lobo") Vandor, who since her return has taken over the giant General Confederation of Labor, historic citadel of Peronismo. Perón obviously hoped that Isabelita would prove as dynamic and domineering as his previous wife, the fabulous Evita-and Isabelita has rallied 14 of the 52 Peronista Deputies in Parliament and 18 of the 62 Peronista unions, claims 20% of the rank and file...
...Corris has an obsession. He wants to whip Yale's Mike Buckley in the 200-yard breaststroke even though Buckley swam the fastest time in the East this winter, 2:12.9, which was 8.8 seconds faster than the record Corris set against Princeton. Corris, however, has not been pushed all year and has plenty of tenacity over the last 100. Look for him to stay a yard of Buckley's 1:03 plus pace for the first 100, churn into the lead with about 50 yards to go, and eke out the upset of the afternoon in record time...