Word: whip
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Democrats may, however, come into conflict in choosing McCormack's replacement as floor leader. The leading candidate is Oklahoma's Carl Albert, 53, currently the Democratic whip and a party workhorse who is well liked by the White House. But since the majority leadership leads toward the Speaker's chair and McCormack himself is not likely to be a long-term incumbent, Albert may have eager opposition. Dick Boiling, 45, is one possibility, and so is Alabama's Albert Rains, 59, a moderate who gets along well with both the party's Northern and Southern...
...boats at upcountry river stations, while understaffed United Nations teams passed out powdered milk to babies and urged the villagers to expand their scraggly little farm plots. In Leopoldville, things seemed normal enough: harassed Premier Cyrille Adoula, struggling to hold his limping central government together, still pondered ways to whip Katanga's Secessionist Moise Tshombe into line, and noted nervously that Eastern Province's Antoine Gizenga talked of breaking away again to win autonomy for his own ragtag region. At U.N. headquarters, staffers looked forward to National Army Day, which, the army promised, would be celebrated...
...second round, Eliot House, which won the Harvard Championship last fall and then went on to whip Davenport College 26 to 0 in the play-off, will take on Jonathan Edwards. Dunster will meet Berkeley; Winthrop, Davenport; and Quincy House, which finished fourth in Cambridge this year after knocking Leverett out of the title race with a 6-0 victory in the season's final game, will take on Branford College...
...episode he strides into the boy's world like a giant out of a fairy tale. Huge-eyed with fright, the child watches the giant as he splutters prodigiously at the bathroom washbowl. Working up his courage, he inquires in a very small voice: "Are you going to whip me?" The man replies: ''Why should I?" A light wakes in the child's eyes. When his stepfather leaves the bathroom, Seryozha goes shyly to the washbowl, makes a tentative little splutter of his own, and then dries himself on the same towel his stepfather used...
...earned the speakership." When a speakership boomlet puffed up for Democratic Whip Carl Albert of Oklahoma, Albert assured McCormack that he was not a rival...