Word: whip
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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MacMillan said the laxwomen tried to whip wing-to-wing passes across the field and either set up ground shots from the outside, or give the ball to a feeder behind the net who would toss the ball out to one of the four-corner attackers...
...surprising lack of interest in publicity; last week he neglected to alert most of the statehouse press corps when he made a surprise visit to two prisons and chatted with inmates. Said the blunt Governor to one"If I ever catch you in here again, I'll whip your...
...film. Assault largely inexperienced cast lurches beneath the preposterous weight of a self-consciously anachronistic script. The dialogue is as tersely as any Hawk's film, and it is often difficult to tell whether the actors mouthing it are sarcastic or inept. All the same, spry gusts of parody whip around the edges of certain lines and actions. There is for example, a disarmingly silly moment when two of the men trapped in the station, squabbling about who should risk an unlikely escape attempt, settle on a quick game on one-potato two-potato...
Einstein had enormous powers of concentration. When the wind died down while he was out sailing, he would whip out his notebook and do his calculations. Stymied by a thorny problem, he would tell his colleagues in accented English, "Now I will a little tink," pace slowly up and down, while twirling a lock of his unruly hair, or perhaps puff on his pipe, then suddenly erupt in a smile and announce a solution. Interrupted by parades of visitors to his Mercer Street house, he could resume his work almost as soon as they stepped out of his second-floor...
...carry a big stick" brings, back the vanished world of Theodore Roosevelt's America. Modern America? The war to end war. A chicken in every pot. We have nothing to fear but fear itself. Remember Pearl Harbor. We shall overcome. Hell no, we won't go. Whip inflation...