Word: whipping
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...yacht and country clubs and the looming shingled mansions by the sea, eastern high society dances the summer nights away to the honey-tongued music of a few favored bands. The men on the bandstands at Newport, Southampton and Bar Harbor are the.same ones who whip out the frothy fox trots at the coming-out balls in the fall, at the canopied weddings in June; two generations of debutantes have been presented, courted and married under the batons of such bandleaders as Meyer Davis and Emil Coleman. Perhaps the busiest of the musical blue bloods is a springy, raw-nerved...
...easy to find-such as they were. Days earlier, the Egyptian Kings had played stickball (a street version of baseball) with the Jesters. The Kings had lost, refused to pay off a 50?-a-man bet on the game. Aroused by the Jesters' protests, the Kings decided to whip a few Jesters. Mike Farmer and Roger McShane were the first boys that the Knights met on their caper-although, as far as the police could learn, neither victim was a member of any gang...
...Tories in the House tried to shout down the loan. If government aid were needed, argued Tory Leader George Drew, let it go to a company controlled by Canadians. Minister Howe bulled ahead; the Liberals invoked a rarely used and unpopular closure motion to shut off debate and whip the bill through...
Bloody Recollection. Ike's cautious opening of the door to a Zhukov-Wilson conference-he shied away from any hint of personal involvement-blossomed into international headlines, provoked widespread, mixed reaction. Montana's Mike Mansfield, Democratic whip in the Senate, urged Ike to go farther, meet Zhukov face to face; such a meeting would "weigh heavily in the President's fav.or. I'm certain that the President would not be taken in." Western diplomats leaked worries that Ike's friendly remarks about Zhukov, suppressor of the bloody Hungarian revolt, might kill a U.S.-sponsored United...
...this reason, moonlighting is likely to increase with shorter hours. For the economy as a whole, moonlighting helps ease the tight labor market, steps up purchasing power. And despite their campaigning, unions have not been able to whip up much enthusiasm for a drive against dual jobholding on health grounds. In Los Angeles this spring, a Western Industrial Medical Association declined to condemn dual jobholding, instead voted to give the problem more study after several members hailed moonlighters as heirs to the spirit of the nation's founders, insisted that hard work never hurt anybody...