Word: whips
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...into Dachau there runs a spur line off the Munich railroad. Here a soldier stopped us and said: "I think you better take a look at these box-cars." The cars were filled with dead men. Most of them were naked. On their bony, emaciated backs and rumps were whip marks. Most of the cars were open-top cars like American coal cars. I walked along these cars and counted 39 of them which were filled with these dead. The smell was very heavy. I cannot estimate with any reasonable accuracy the number of dead we saw here...
...result of its fine showing last week, the Varsity has gained new spirit and now stands an even chance to whip both Cornell and Tech this Saturday over the same course...
...union's president, mild-mannered little Robert H. Keys, who had been a foreman himself (Ford), was quick to crack back. Bob Keys talked of "strikes along legal channels" to whip Packard into contract-signing...
...Central American Policy. Uncle Sam drove five Indians, representing the five Central American republics, across a stage. The Indians were loaded with shackles labeled "Bananas," "Fixed [coffee] Prices," "The Railroad." Although the Great Good Neighbor cracked his whip, he cooed to the slaves: "I am your friend...
Playwright Kelly is no punch-puller-and no knight of chivalry. In The Deep Mrs. Sykes he brings down the whip, with a kind of cold fury, on the whole "female" nature. Yet he carefully digs beneath behavior for motive, explains Mrs. Sykes as well as excoriates her. In fact, he explains everybody-a virtue that winds up as a kind of fault, because the play resorts to outside enlightenment rather than selfrevelation; it tells rather than shows. The result is more like a solved cryptogram than a thing of flesh & blood. But, if not a satisfying experience, The Deep...