Word: whipping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Crank Up. The fact that the Administration had so much at stake had already deprived the nomination's opponents of the backing of the two top Republican leaders, Minority Leader Hugh Scott of Pennsylvania and Minority Whip Robert Griffin of Michigan, who had been instrumental in defeating Clement Haynsworth. Without that leadership, the few remaining G.O.P. liberals had to scramble among themselves to find an anti-Carswell standardbearer. The result was the emergence of Brooke, the Senate's lone black, as an effective leader of the liberal bloc...
While the actors do a creditable imitation of the famed brothers, it is Lewis J. Stadlen as Groucho who achieves inspired mimicry. He has the best lines. (Groucho always did.) He has all the rest too: the eyes and eyebrows that whip up and down like window shades, the fluent crouch, the quick leer and the quicker wit of an urban bordello cavalier. He is a great credit to the show and-the ultimate compliment-to Groucho...
...highly-regarded pair of Perry and Dawson-6-2. 2-6. 6-2. Devereux and Crimson captain Butch Kawakami secured the eighth Harvard point with a 3-6. 6-3, 6-3 decision over Custer and Galdorisi at the second position, and Brock teamed with senior Bill Ball to whip Brown and AlSwisher at third doubles...
...proxy challenge of its kind that he has been forced to vote on. Although a legitimate business maneuver. Bennett simply doesn't approve. "As a matter of procedure, we can be more persuasive by being friendly than by getting into a proxy fight and trying to snap the corporate whip." he said...
...Hard Day's Night and Help is sheer stupidity (which is not inappropriate) in Magic Christian. The only thing cheaper than Ringo's name on the theatre marquee is Raquel Weich's above it. Her lucrative, careermaking breasts quivered expressively throughout her fifteen-second role as an Amazon whip-mistress. The role, needless to say, also has no relation to Southern's original satire...