Word: whip
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that she really fits the description. Not beautiful but with almost translucent brown skin, high cheekbones, and compelling eyes set in charcoal shadows, she has a memorable face; her figure-broad-hipped yet lithe, strong yet feminine, medium tall yet commanding-animates any costume she wears, and she can whip a train or thrust a sleeve with regal authority...
Although opinion favors Yale in both relays, the Bulldogs will have a lot of trouble scoring back-to-back wins. The Yalies must save Stack for the climactic mile relay, and the Crimson combination of Harry Rich. Gus Schumacher, Mullin, and Fred Howard should be able to whip the left-overs in the two-mile...
...miner. But young, log cabin-born Jesse Stuart, who often went coon hunting with a lantern and a volume of Robert Burns, was determined to go to college (Said a neighbor: "He's a plum fool. If he was a young'un of mine, I'd whip his tail with a hickory"). Although hiring out to farmers for 25? a day at the age of nine, and working full time from ages 11 to 15, Stuart eventually-following circus and steel mill stints-graduated from Tennessee's Lincoln Memorial University. Five years later, while teaching high...
...going to give up the drum and take up the lute. But with The Last Days of Sodom and Gomorrah now shooting in Morocco, Joe seems in no danger. One of his current concerns, in fact, is how to publicize that movie: Mrs. Levine, he thinks, might perhaps whip up some tasteful, monogrammed pillars of salt...
...nine months have needed only a day's work to make them ready for occupancy. At Nike villages in Texas, families have been prevented from joining their missilemen for nine more months for lack of housing. At Grand Forks Air Force Base in North Dakota, the winter winds whip through the half shells of some $11.3 million in unfinished, abandoned housing projects-preventing the transfer of a B-52 squadron there. At Beale Air Force Base near Marysville, Calif., some 400 incomplete military houses are rotting under the winter rains, while servicemen commute from towns miles away...