Word: whip
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Kennedy went into the caucus thinking he had 28 "face-to-face" commitments to retain the whip job he won two years earlier by defeating Sen. Russell B. Long of Louisiana...
...number four man Anil Kapur and William's number one man, seeded fourth in the tournament, to advance to the semifinals. Against Page, Briggs won the first game but dropped the next two games in fairly close contests. In the final game, Page used his superior experience to whip Briggs easily...
...Tippo approached him about heading the ed school, Allen boldly "asked for everything." To his shock, he got virtual carte blanche−and has used it with characteristic gusto. Draping his portly form in custom-tailored African shirts and guzzling low-calorie colas, Dean Allen first set out to whip up a graduate school. Foundations and the Federal Government agreed with his goal, came up with nearly $4,000,000. Allen raised faculty salaries to as much as $33,000 a year, signed on historians and economists as well as education professors, attracted 90 new doctoral candidates. Then he popped...
...Chiden, is poised to whip a fish from a stream; the bird becomes a metaphor of the mind and its power to seize what is spiritually relevant. The monk Hakuin Ekaku meditated on a terrifying Buddhist deity and expressed that terror by simply "writing" the deity's name-the heavy strokes conveying a menace beyond what the ideograms spell out: "Blue-countenanced Bearer of the Thunderbolt." A swift sketch of two cackling women gets the inscription...
...Words have been my only love," says Beckett. This show is abundant proof of that. The word as dance, as flame, as dirge, as echo, as whip, as caress, as cosmic howl-they are all here, and MacGowran catches every cadence perfectly...