Word: whip
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rejected, with city council approval, a check for $1,889. His action was rooted in prairie suspicion. "I would have sent it back even if it were $18,000," he insisted. "When I was a kid my mother used to send me out for a switch and then whip me with it. This is like being put into bondage with your own chains...
Other sessions of the course dealt with such practicalities as how many round trips to their home districts legislators are allowed on their expense accounts (36), the most helpful source of information on about-to-be-voted-on bills (the weekly "whip package," which includes the next week's scheduled action, committee reports and copies of the bills, including short summaries of their contents), and how bills are numbered (consecutively, except for one each session introduced by Iowa Congressman H.R. Gross, which carries the number 144 since that number equals a gross...
...most likely to replace Boggs as majority leader is Massachusetts Congressman Thomas ("Tip") O'Neill, who is now majority whip. By his own count O'Neill has 160 votes pledged to him, more than enough to win in a showdown for the Boggs job. By tradition O'Neill is the natural successor to Boggs, who was majority whip before becoming majority leader. O'Neill, 59, has been in Congress since 1952, when he was elected to the House to replace John F. Kennedy, who had moved on to the Senate. Gregarious and quick-witted...
...shown about as much forenight as Custer did before he rode out to see what the Indians were up to at Little Big Horn. I picked Harvard to rout UMass, and Harvard was routed. I picked Cornell to beat Harvard, and Harvard bombed Cornell. I picked Harvard to whip Penn, and Penn whipped Harvard. I picked Harvard to crush Princeton, and you guess it. I did accurately pick Harvard to beat B.U., Columbia, and Brown but Columbia and Brown are the two worst teams in the Ivy League, and B.U. has its worst team in ten years, which considering...
...something pithy along the lines of "go" or "rah." I forget exactly what, since the moment is enveloped in high emotion. I think Frank deserved this encouragement because he had beaten the world--though he could never beat Harvard. Indeed I had countless times watched Doug Hardin '68 whip his ass in H.Y. competition. But Hardin retired to play the cello and now Shorter was free to pursue athletic success, which is what some people consider an Olympic title...