Word: whipping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...best when he describes the fires he has fought. In scene after scene the men of Company 82 race up the stairs of flaming tenements, hose-whip tornadoes of dark orange flame, crawl through smoke as thick as gravy, groping for bodies, stagger out with a tragic load of suffocated mothers and babies, then puke black phlegm all over the pavement. Many victims, it is true, are brought out alive-Engine Co. 82 performs prodigies of rescue every...
...about," says Murray, "is some stern-eyed maitre d' and some evil-assed cat back in the kitchen!" It is a pleasure to hear the voice of experience. As an Air Force major, Murray administered a $37 million military budget. He is also a certified intellectual who can whip a line from Sophocles to Bessie Smith, with enough left over to tie down Max Weber, Kenneth Burke and Duke Ellington...
...these lanky, bull whip-limbed sophomores and juniors are not the main reason why you can't buy any of the 14,000 seats at Cole Field House for the rest of the season. The main reason is coach Charles G. Driesell, known to the people as Lefty, who does not come out on the floor when the team comes out for pre-game warmups, but stages his own highly personalized entrance several minutes later, with his assistants trailing deferentially a few steps behind...
Harvard, which lost its only Ivy game at Hanover early last month, is in the most tenuous position. If the Crimson loses both games at Princeton and Penn this weekend, it must defeat Dartmouth in a return match two weeks from today and whip both the Tigers and the Quakers when they travel to Cambridge in early February, in order to have a chance at the League championship...
...such love-hate feelings has long gray locks, chubby pink cheeks and an apple shaped figure. A onetime sailor, onetime ballet dancer, Russell now looks, at 44, rather like an amiable monk. On a set, though, the monk turns into Rasputin, roaring, stamping his feet, cracking a riding whip on the floor. Whole scenes, including choreography, are often invented after the cameras begin turning. "Instant creation," Russell calls it, beaming...