Word: whiplash
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...pistol barked, the chair legs blocked the thrust of the paw, and the beast took his place. More cats ran in-a batch of lions, a batch of tigers, a batch of lions-keeping their heads and shoulders low to avoid cuffs from the others. Crack, Crack! Crack ! The whiplash exploded like a bunch of firecrackers until all the animals were pedestaled-25 lions and lionesses, 15 tigers and tigresses. A tiger with ominously writhing tail left its post, slunk toward the small figure in white. Beatty put his head down almost to the sawdust, pretended to be staring...
...courses at Harvard in composition and in contemporary American literature are among the most frequently "vagabonded" by undergraduates. Bluff, energetic and armed with a whiplash tongue his favorite amusement is exploding the pet theories and foibles of his fellow authors and instructors...
...There is one thing which is opposed to this, however. The President has to exercise patronage to control legislation. In order to have congressmen vote for his bills he is obliged to make arbitrary appointments in all branches of the government. He has no other whiplash over the House and the Senate except public support, such as he enjoys at present. When he is out of favor with a part of the people, he must rely on the spoils system. He should be given the right to adjourn the Congress once in his term, and make the legislators stand public...
...much greater thickness of the bull's neck, instead of being able to lock his fingers together, the tips were barely touching. This made his hold very insecure and with the bull tossing his head up & down, Pickett's legs and feet flying like a whiplash, he was in a very dangerous and precarious position. At this very critical point, the cowboys commenced to throw their lassos, some aiming for the bull's front legs and some for his hind legs, and with this, the fed-up and disgruntled multitude commenced to throw cushions, empty beer bottles...
...hiss, roar, paw each other and Mr. Beatty, but nobody is hurt. The lions & tigers are frequently stubborn, which gives Mr. Beatty an opportunity to demonstrate his undeniable courage. Sometimes one will leap at him; then his revolver makes lightning in the dim cage and the beast receives a whiplash. Two laconic old lions, Kazan and Nero, are at once the most recalcitrant and the most easily subdued. Spectators inclined to think that it is all just good-natured fun may remember that two months ago Nero subdued Trainer Beatty, put him in the hospital with a badly torn...