Word: whipping
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...least, against Smathers, who seems to have everything going for him. In Washington, Smathers is secretary to the Senate Democratic Conference, the No. 3 man among Senate Democrats after Majority Leader Mike Mansfield and Whip Hubert Humphrey. This entitles him to have breakfast at the White House every Tuesday morning with his fellow leaders and an old friend named John Kennedy. As young men in the House, Smathers and Kennedy occupied adjoining offices, often partied together. When Kennedy got married, Smathers ushered at the wedding...
...wonder what Sigmund Freud would say about the tiny whip...
...night, long after the other nuns have retired, she stays awake to pray; in her cell she has a "discipline" with the tiny whip that certain religious use to scourge themselves in mortification. In her soli tary life, Sister Nazarena prays, explains one nun, "for you, for me, for all of us." Solitude with her God seems to agree with her. "She is the most serene person I have ever known," says her abbess Mother Hildegarde. "She is a saint...
...when the game was really rough-when thoroughbred horse racing was a contest between swift mounts and mean jocks, when it was standard practice to slash at another rider with a whip, to grab the bridle of an opposing horse, to lock legs with a boy who was bringing his mount past in close quarters...
...managed to look ill at ease. His long Cyrano nose protruded beyond his cap and goggles, as he rode in "ace-deuce" fashion with his right stirrup two inches higher than the left. He carried on a running conversation with all his mounts, his voice and spurs and whip speaking urgently but never harshly. He had a theory that it was almost always better to dangle a whip menacingly in front of a horse's nose than to slash heavily at the animal's flank...