Word: whip
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...such service at a time of need, Roosevelt last week finally got his reward: Kennedy nominated him to become Under Secretary of Commerce. After confirmation by the Senate (where an un-vengeful Humphrey is now Democratic whip), Roosevelt, 48, a former Congressman from New York (1949-54) who is presently a Fiat and Jaguar dealer in Washington, will take the $21,000-a-year post being vacated by Edward Gudeman, who is returning to private business...
...brothers hung on grimly, traveled to Acapulco, Monterrey, Guadalajara and beyond to get their merchandise. They sponsored a television show called The 64,000-Peso Question, used some air time to whip up public opinion. The turning point came when the Arangos opened two new stores. ''They knew then," says Jeronimo, president of the chain, "that we weren't any fly-by-night operation. We were in business forever...
Since Britain appeared to be shut out of the Common Market, at least for now, its businessmen were already engaged in looking where else to turn. For some, among whom the noisiest was Lord Beaverbrook, the best alternative was to whip the Commonwealth into a kind of super common market. Composed of 16 nations that are threaded together by a complicated system of preferential tariff agreements, the Commonwealth has a population of 715 million, accounts for 23% of the world's trade. The Commonwealth, India's Nehru once mused, is "a rather strange and odd collection of nations...
...while the insurgents thought of trying to oust Charlie himself, but then realized that they did not have that much influence. They talked of moving against Illinois' Les Arends, the G.O.P. whip; that idea also was discarded. Finally they decided to zero in on Iowa's Charles Hoeven, 67, chairman of the House Republican Conference. Their candidate to replace Hoeven: Michigan's Gerald Ford Jr., 49, a former University of Michigan football star who has become a recognized House expert in defense appropriations...
...sister" and was known among his friends as Lou's "maid of honor." Nothing better expressed the relationship of the two philosophers to Lou than a photograph they once had taken. Nietzsche and Ree are harnessed to a cart in which a grinning Lou is brandishing a whip...