Word: whiplashed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...opening a multifront offensive, as they seemed to be doing last week, the Communists could whiplash the ARVN command by reducing the pressure in one region, only to step it up suddenly in another. The idea would be to force reserve units to move and thus to weaken vital areas. Saigon last week was all but stripped of its reserves; even the presidential palace guard was sent north to the action...
...Whiplash. Both President Nixon and members of Congress have made proposals that would accomplish the latter, but none has worked hard for actual passage. The Administration plan, which is acceptable to railroad management and violently opposed by the unions, would provide for a three-man board to choose between the final offers made by both sides. The Democrats' Williams-Staggers bill would allow unions to strike individual railroads. But rail executives fear that under the plan unions would hit wealthy lines for high settlements that hard-up lines then would be whiplashed into meeting. A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany...