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...list include New Jersey's Cornelius Gallagher, who supposedly accepted about $40,000, and Louisiana's Edwin Edwards, now Governor, who has admitted to receiving $20,000. Other payments made by Park were smaller and often described as "campaign donations," like the $4,650 to House Majority Whip John Brademas and the $300 given to Mo Udall of Arizona...
...more basic reason for unrepairables is the recent proliferation and sophistication of appliances, some of which have complicated solid-state circuitry. The consumer today relies on powered handy-andies to perform the gamut of erstwhile manual chores: to carve, squeeze, blend, mix, whip, grind, toast, grill, simmer, brew, stew, waffle, percolate, fry, dry, polish, drill, sharpen, sweep, vacuum, brush, iron, comb, curl, open cans, close pores and answer the phone...
...fell so far behind schedule that Carter could not obtain an estimate for his fiscal 1979 budget. As a result, the Office of Management and Budget came up with its own-$3.9 billion -which was also rejected. Furious at the foulups. Carter told Domestic Affairs Adviser Stuart Eizenstat to whip the policy into shape. Within two months, he and Harris produced a ten-page outline that Carter liked. In a note to "Pat and Stu" the President gave his go-ahead. "My whole family will help," he added...
Here we have George Jefferson: entrepreneur, black bigot, a splenetic little whip of a man who bullies like a demented overseer, seldom speaks below a shriek and worships at the church of ostentation. Would you like to live next door to The Jeffersons? Or consider the character J.J. on TV's Good Times: a bug-eyed young comic of the ghetto with spasms of supercool blowing through his nervous system, a kind of ElectraGlide strut. "Dy-no-mite!" goes J.J., to convulse the audience in the way that something like "Feets, do your stuff!" got to them three decades...
...insist upon perfect timing, even if it means a high-speed chase through the pot-holed streets of the City. Commuting by cab is a sure-fire route to hypertension, ulcers and the inability to lace up one's own Adidas. It's kind of like the rolled coaster, whip, and bumper cars all rolled into one and set loose on the streets...