Word: whip
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Next day, House Republican Leader Charlie Halleck and G.O.P. members of the Judiciary Committee held a strategy session in the office of Minority Whip Leslie Arends. They were discussing MacGregor's "unity bill" proposal when a telephone call for Halleck came from the President. Halleck asked his colleagues, "What shall I tell him?" Said MacGregor: "We've got the leverage on this thing now and I don't think we'll get anywhere unless we use it." The Republicans quickly came to a decision, and Halleck delivered it to President Kennedy. In effect...
...floor-where they were promptly arrested. At another point, five pickets ran into three Tito aides; in the scuffle, one of Tito's men ended up with a bruised jaw. And outside the Waldorf, six demonstrators paraded in Halloween skeleton costumes, hauling a chariot bearing skeletons and a whip-cracking man dressed as Tito. Angered, Tito canceled a reception for 1,200 guests. "The reason for this," said Tito's communique, "is the failure of the competent authorities ... to undertake adequate security measures in connection with the reception." Replied New York's Police Commissioner Michael Murphy: "Sheer...
...imminent danger of crashing through the floor into the old air-raid shelter below. Hurriedly, the occupants moved around the corner to Admiralty House, and a top-to-bottom interior overhaul began on Nos. 10, 11 and 12 (the latter is home for the P.M.'s Party Whip). The initial timetable was two years; the initial cost estimate...
...Back began to challenge, but Kelso moved alongside-and Carry Back wilted. Valenzuela clucked to Kel so, and the champion went after Never Bend. For a few brief seconds the two horses raced head to head. Then Never Bend bent. Without ever feeling the bite of Valenzuela's whip, Kelso drew away, galloped to an easy, 31-length victory. The richest horse racing anywhere in the world had added another $70,720 to his bankroll...
When Charlotte was nine, her mother committed suicide; Charlotte's picture shows her just before she leaped from a window. Her father was taken to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp; her picture of him working under a guard's whip is a frenzied sketch, as if she could not bear to confront her easel. She fled from Germany; the scene of her last night at home is a lonely vigil over suitcases...