Word: whips
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Baldish Paul Moss (whose licensing powers extend from pawnbrokers to meat markets and masseurs) had always kept a sharp eye, and sometimes brought down a heavy whip, on the theater. In 1934 he removed the runways ("varicose alleys") from New York's 14 burlesque houses. In 1937 he closed the houses...
...haired, amiable T/4 O'Neill (28) appeared at the State Capitol in Columbus. On furlough for the duration of the Legislature, he was still in uniform, still wearing his Good Conduct Medal, two bronze battle stars. Starting his fourth term (he was first elected at 22, was Republican whip last session), he went to the Speaker's rostrum, made a speech about what a great job U.S. soldiers were doing overseas. His colleagues rose and cheered...
Butters tried chasing the beasts on foot with a mule whip-a process complicated by the necessity of hugging trees to keep his quarry from killing him. Finally, with the help of four other men and a hard-won technique, he drove 32 young buffalo into a corral...
...chivalrous, brave, a good swordsman, a bad liar, and a miser when it came to hanging on to his illusions. When Pedro came upon two ruffians in the forest attacking Catana Pérez (clad only in her shoes, stocking and a torn shift), he cut one with his whip and rode the other down with his horse, though Catana was only a tavern keeper's daughter. And without quite knowing what he was doing, he delivered himself and his family into the power of the Inquisition by trying to help a soldier whose mother had been arrested...
...seized the city hall, settled down for a hunger strike to force the Government to open the local mill. Grau had appeased the mill owners with four-year tax exemptions, had threatened to cancel their quotas unless they ground sugar. The mills remained closed. Then Grau cracked a heavier whip. Sugar mills would prepare for production at once, the President ordered, or face confiscation...