Word: whipping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week ago Shepard saw the Eli junior varsity whip Princeton, so he is not too optimistic about his team's chances. Junior Jack Evjy at right end is the only holdover from last year's lineup...
EPISODE IN THE TRANSVAAL, by Harry Bloom (295 pp.; Doubleday; $3.95), is an authentic novel about South Africa, in which a self-righteous white superintendent snaps his bureaucratic whip once too often in a native "location." Johannesburg Lawyer-Novelist Harry Bloom, who jars the conscience by way of the solar plexus, all but makes audible the "roar of the lion" in 12,000 black throats...
Incidentally, we're a little tired of being TIME-portrayed as magnolia-scented, bull-whip-swinging, red-faced illiterates. Most of that prototype were our overseers, who have with their descendants returned to the North whence they came and are now writing learnedly for the press...
...cultivate what Nehru branded as "fissiparous tendencies" and to demand their own states. The Babel-like hue and cry would have seemed ominous, indeed, but for a happy outcome in Andhra. There, in the first state election, with language no longer an issue, the Communists could no longer whip up hatreds, and were themselves soundly whipped. Thus encouraged, Nehru saw advantages in giving as many people as possible a government which spoke their own language...
...explain to anyone, or show him either, how he will react emotionally to Communist prisoner-handling methods . . . so how can you expect a man to harden himself to unusual conditions by watching instructors whip off a routine demonstration in which the student can take no part...