Word: whip
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ironic it is that the condition ofinvisibility in which Black people find themselvesis subject to constant surveillance: the police,the tree, the whip," West said, referring tolynchings...
Though Harvard couldn't beat the top teams, however, it could certainly could whip the bottom of the barrel. There were the bi-annual decimations of MIT (two 15-1 scores), a sweep of B.C. (11-9 and 14-8) and wins over Yale (15-10) and Dartmouth (18-9) in the Ivy Championships...
...ants have grown so nasty that some folks argue for a return to chemical warfare. Says Republican Congressman Tom DeLay of Texas, the House majority whip and a former exterminator: "The scientific evidence doesn't justify the mirex...
...abroad for bad news? The real precedents are homegrown. Years ago, D.H. Lawrence, making his way through American literature, fell upon Fenimore Cooper's Natty Bumppo and pronounced, "The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer." A fancy line, but true only of a certain whip-mean conscienceless strain in the American character. It is not a bad description of the Oklahoma City suspect's eyes...
...review of the records. "There was never any intent to deceive," he said. "I had no reason to do so." Foster promised to lead a national campaign against teen pregnancies if confirmed. Does he have a chance? Even if the committee approves Foster, TIME correspondent Karen Tumulty reports, Majority Whip Trent Lott (R-Miss.) said today that the GOP leadership would not bring the nomination to a floor vote "if there was any hint of filibuster." Senator Phil Gramm has already threatened a filibuster if the nomination is brought to the floor...