Word: whip
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mouthing the council these days is becoming almost as fashionable as criticizing Harvard. John J. Courtney, another unaligned non-incumbent, said that the mayor, who presides over council meetings, would be replaced by a "ringmaster with a whip," since the "city council is nothing but a circus...
...future of government spending for social services is at stake, but not because New York's crisis shows such spending ends in disaster. It is at stake because Ford, conservatives, and entrenched corporate interests are trying to use New York to whip up a reaction against public spending. If they are successful, the long-term steps necessary to help New York and other major cities, such as a Federal takeover of welfare costs and increased revenue sharing, won't be taken...
House Republican Whip Robert Michel provided a private airplane so that five friendly Congressmen could still make a key meeting out of town. The House finally voted...
...kept cursing me and said he was going to whip my ass," asserted South Carolina Patrolman J.R. Swicher, after charging Poet James Dickey with drunken driving and disorderly conduct. The author of the riveting adventure novel Deliverance had just driven his 1968 Jaguar off the road and into a utility pole in Columbia, S.C. "There is a kind of complex of roads which I am unfamiliar with," explained Dickey, 52, after spending four hours in jail and posting $132.50 in bail. "I took a wrong turn, and the road didn't go anywhere." Now facing two months behind bars...
...pants, Cleaver is still looking for a manufacturer. He doesn't know when they'll be on the market. "Already I've got a few names for them, though--the Whip, the Snake, or in France, the Mauvais Garcon...