Word: whipping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...After the performance, Dancer Lifar tossed his black locks in indignation, declared that he was challenging Cuevas to a duel. "Out of respect for his great age," he would allow the marquis the choice of weapons. The marquis answered. "I wish I could choose the whip, to give him a good drubbing," but decided on the more conventional...
...weight of 4.5 Ibs. per gallon to hold down the amount of air manufacturers whip into their product. ¶ A minimum of 1.6 Ibs. of solid substance per gallon to avoid too much water and not enough cream. ¶ Real fruit flavors for sherbets and water ices. Artificially colored products must be clearly labeled...
...Means Committee Chairman Wilbur Mills, ordinarily a calm, slow-going Arkansan, got the word during hearings on reciprocal trade, rushed from the room, set up a telephone command post in a nearby office, alerted Speaker Sam Rayburn, huddled with other Democratic leaders, issued urgent orders for committee staffers to whip up a Democratic tax-cut bill the moment the White House moved. No matter what chips the Republican Administration threw onto the table against recession, the Democratic...
...eyes set for the Senate, too. Last week in San Jose, at the showdown before the quasi-official Republican state assembly convention, Goodie took a handy edge toward full endorsement by his party for the primaries: the assembly's fact-finding committee handed him the whip by a vote of 29 to 7; all that remained was support by full vote of the entire assembly...
Just as Willie goes vigorously to the whip to let a horse know who is boss, so William Hartack Sr. wielded a switch with old-fashioned regularity to keep his kids in line. He had three children?Bill Jr., 8, Evelyn, 9, and Maxine. 1? when his wife Nancy died on Christmas morning of 1940 as the result of an automobile crash. He was far too busy scratching out a marginal living as a Colver. Pa. coal-miner to indulge his family in any subtle systems of discipline. "I used to take the stick a lot to Billy," father Hartack...