Word: whip
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...smart as a whip and an amazing human being," said Bunting Institute Director Rita Nakashima Brock, who particularly praised Thomas for her help in selecting for Bunting fellows...
...Thomas J. Bliley (R-Va.) sent a letter to President Clinton demanding an apology. The letter was signed by more than 50 House Republicans, including Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.), Majority Leader Richard K. Armey (R-Tex.) and Majority Whip Tom Delay...
Find that single country station you can pick up in Cambridge and you'll learn this: the most desirable women in the world are smart as a whip and not afraid to show it. They are outspoken, demanding and highly capable equals...
...ought be grateful that our ancestors were taken away from everything familiar to them on the coasts of West Africa and kept as slaves for centuries is the most banal. I don't want to shock Novak, but the Middle Passage was not quite a Carnival cruise. Patterns of whip lashes on the backs of slaves weren't regarded as pretty decorations. And being raped to breed bastard children that would be sold away from you wasn't exactly a good ol' romp...
...sketched out, documents left by 16th century nuns described in detail: the 14-ft.-long, herringbone-twill linen cloth of which the bishop spoke did bear the image of a naked and bearded man about 6 ft. tall, hair in a loose ponytail, back apparently scourged with a multithonged whip, hands crossed modestly before him. The figure was already faded then: a more recent witness described it as having "both the color and character of faint scorch marks on a well-used ironing cover." But not so faint that, D'Arcis excepted, people doubted who it was. Believers continued...