Word: whipping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...film picks up where Hawaii left off; Whip Hoxworth (this time played by Heston) returns home to find that his dead grandfather has willed him 85,000 measly acres of Hawaiian soil. Hoxworth promptly heads for French Guiana to steal some pineapples to plant. A lovely Chinese girl (Tina Chen) helps the fruit to flourish, and Hoxworth soon has most of the island on the Dole...
...contributed money for her construction. She is, by Morgan's description, "a big mamoo," beefy in the middle and stubby at the ends. Like the other contenders, Heritage has a deck that is as clean as a dance floor; her rig, says Morgan is "bendy as a buggy whip." Though his ship is distinctly a long shot, Morgan says that nothing is going to stop him from "fulfilling my wildest dream...
...funds for any future U.S. operations in Cambodia after June 30. Often speaking to a nearly empty chamber, Republican Senators prevented any substantive vote. An innocuous change in the wording of the measure's preamble was approved, 82 to 11, but it amounted only to what Republican Whip Robert Griffin called a "cosmetic" to make the legislation "look a little better" to the Administration. The modification did not change the White House's opposition to any congressional restriction...
...idea was to whip up some frontpage glamour for Conservative Party Chief Ted Heath, whose poll ratings are lackluster as England's general election nears. Tory flacks alerted the press that Bachelor Heath and a blonde were embarking for a sail aboard his yacht Morning Cloud. But Ted sniffed "Absolute nonsense" to all notions of romance, asserting that the lady was merely his sea cook and sailing companion. Then he ran the Morning Cloud aground on a sand...
...fights next January will be over the second and third spots in the leadership, majority leader and whip; for these posts there is no shortage of candidates, and lively scraps between reformers and old-liners could develop. But it is the Speaker who sets the chamber's pace and tone. McCormack, the last man born in the 19th century to hold top congressional leadership, never made it to high school and never got over the New Deal tradition of a Congress that takes its cue from the White House. Albert, a Rhodes Scholar and affable companion, is likely...