Word: whip
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...unlimbered his six-gun and shot at them when they failed to stop. Although he has yet to hit a car (or driver), Earl keeps trying to slow them down. When some local toughs threatened to run him out of town, he grabbed the ringleader and promised to pistol-whip him the length of Main Street if he talked back to the law again...
...three years. After more than two centuries, the narrow, four-story house in which 43 British Prime Ministers have lived or worked is crumbling and in urgent need of rebuilding. Like No. 11, the residence of Chancellors of the Exchequer, and No. 12, the office of the majority party whip, the house was built about 1682 as a real estate speculation by a Harvard man named Sir George Downing; despite repeated patching and propping, its floors and walls have tilted and sagged. Sir Winston Churchill, who has tried both No. 10 and No. 11, long ago called down a plague...
When the time came for the real test last week, Polaris and her crew were ready. The SINS had the ship exactly on station. The control surfaces that could whip George Washington through the water like a startled eel now held it steady and motionless. On signal, the muzzle door atop a missile tube swung open. A small, explosive charge ruptured the plastic membrane that protected the bird from sea water, and a great blast of compressed air sent it rocketing toward the surface and its remarkable flight...
...that the World Bank estimates will take $6,000,000 a year in outside aid. Yet to the new officialdom, optimism came easy last week in the sidewalk espresso shops of sun-scorched Mogadishu, the capital and only major city, where the hot monsoon sometimes blows hard enough to whip off the tablecloths. Construction was being rushed on two jerry-built but air-conditioned hotels. And like tribalists all over Africa, Somalis were talking ambitiously of redrawing the borders imposed by the white men to reunite their fellow tribesmen. Over the years, as their own land eroded, Somalis have settled...
Elegant & Expensive. Some of the merchandise is elegant and expensive. London Silversmith Gerald Benney, designer of the ciborium for Coventry's new cathedral, offers a squat, modern tea service for $1,080. Harry Hall Ltd., outfitters for sportsmen, has the latest foxhunting outfit for men, including riding whip, for $163. But many items are both stylish and moderately priced. For example, Wedgwood sells a five-piece setting of bone china...