Word: whipping
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Although the Russians insist that their aid is offered without any strings attached, they crack the whip whenever it suits their purpose, e.g., "postponement"' of credits to Yugoslavia after the split with Marshal Tito. Often the terms of Red aid packages are such that underdeveloped nations are shortchanged. The Russians tacked artificially high price tags (in rubles) onto the goods they bartered in return for Egyptian cotton. Then they resold the cotton to West Germany, Switzerland and other regular Egyptian customers, at a 10% discount...
...headman at the farm's sisal-processing plant. "He is too powerful, and you cannot change him." But Tom Mboya recalls how riled he was at the sight of the stern estate manager, whom the Africans in fear called Bwana Kiboko-the boss who carries the hippo-skin whip...
...charges right back at him. They promised to cut Ike down to size by lopping off $1 billion, possibly to tack the saving onto the embattled U.S. defense budget. "There is too much money and too little change in administration," said Montana's Mike Mansfield, the Senate Democratic whip. "Where is the joint foreign aid effort with other free nations assuming their share of the burden?" Next day at his press conference, the President agreed that "the whole free world should be in a cooperative effort to raise the world economy," announced that a step in this direction will...
...stretches from the gross inaccuracies of Drew Pearson, who is at once the least reliable and the best ratcatching reporter in town, to the sage, sometimes unfathomable profundities of Walter Lippmann, treating the current news as though it were already history. It includes Doris Fleeson, the self-appointed whip of the Democratic Party, who only last week accused her party of McCarthy tactics in castigating the sins of the Eisenhower Administration without offering any salvation for them...
...Reston is not so easily classified as such doctrinaire liberals as Columnist Marquis Childs or radio-TV's Eric Sevareid. He is a liberal, and his key sources are weighted on the liberal side, including, in addition to Stevenson and Fulbright, Presidential Aspirant Hubert Humphrey and Senate Democratic Whip Mike Mansfield. But he tries earnestly, both in his thinking and his reporting, to avoid classification either by ideology or party. He was for Eisenhower in 1952 and for Stevenson in 1956, and his stories showed it. He has been on the cold side of cool toward Richard Nixon...