Word: whip
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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LAMM V. VANDERHOOF The environment is the main issue in Colorado, and it would be hard to find a more ardent environmentalist that Democrat Richard Lamm, 39. Minority whip in the state house of representatives, Lamm led the successful fight to keep the 1976 Winter Olympics out of Colorado, on the ground that they would affect thoustands of visitors who would threaten the environment. He sponsored a land-use bilt that lost by a single vote...
There can be no freedom to legitimize discrimination based on race. There is only the swagger of privilege and it is immutably political. It is privilege founded by the whip and the rope, erected by the few against the many, the self-styled "meritocrats" against the opponents of a racist meritocracy. It is a privilege which must be resolutely fought and just as resolutely rejected if offered. To do otherwise is to participate in the subjugation of the many at the behest...
...troubles, he is determined to stick it out. "I only wish this town would give me a little loyalty and support," he says. "I know that given a fighting chance, I can make this club a winner." Devine's contract with the Packers expires next year. To whip the ghost of Lombardi by then, he will need nothing less than another N.F.L. championship for Green...
Despite the obstacles Radcliffe will face, the team is confident it will whip Wellesley...
...going through a fit of hysterics. As they were taking her to the police station...she would sit down on the ground every five steps, scream and lift up her clothes, revealing her nakedness, to show the bruises. 'I'm a prostitute, is that why they have to whip me? It's the pimp's fault--I'll show...