Word: whip
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...storm that followed, a special judicial commission delivered a secret report that is said to clear Lavon. Newspapers have managed to hint that Lavon's relations with young Army Chief Moshe Dayan and Shimon Peres, the whip-smart young director-general of the Defense Ministry, were terrible at the time. But Peres. 37, now B-G's Deputy Defense Minister, denies that he had any part in framing Lavon, and Dayan, 45, now Agriculture Minister and B-G's present favorite for the succession, has said nothing...
...essential characteristic of satire, according to Johnson, is criticism. He explained that "the 'crack' in 'wisecrack' is the crack of the whip, which is never more effective than when it is cutting into someone's hide...
...proud detail, the Journalist, house organ of the Japan Congress of Journalists (1,700 members), told exactly how pro-Communist Japanese newsmen had helped whip Japanese emotions to riotous frenzy. "Japanese journalists who participated in the great struggle," said the Journalist, "worked through such organizations as labor unions of the press, radio and TV, holding numerous protest shop rallies, advocating petitioning of the Diet or participating directly in the demonstrations...
...mistake (in Communist terms) of allowing somebody to get to the left of him. His wrecking of the summit and his furious rocket-rattling ever since are obviously designed to demonstrate to emergent nations and wavering comrades that nobody can be more militant than Khrushchev. He has cracked the whip among the satellites, demanded that his Communist satraps stand up and be counted. Last week the leaders of Communist North Viet Nam and later Mongolia were duly whipsawed into declaring their support for Khrushchev, and Seoul reported that North Korea's Kim II Sung, getting ready for Nikita...
...meet is a rigorous, three-day affair conducted in the town's Casino movie house and the municipal theater, under a glowering panel of judges headed by France's Composer-Teacher Eugene Bigot. The young maestros must whip a professional orchestra through difficult pieces, noting as they go errors planted along the way to trip them...