Word: whips
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Denmark, until recently Germany's model conquest, was looted with great finesse and tact, although the end results have been the same: all trade and industry of consequence controlled by Germans. The Danes felt a new lash of the Nazi whip last week, when troops began seizing furniture and household goods to be shipped back for the use of bombed-out German families...
...jumped Democratic Whip Lister Hill: "I think the Senate is entitled to information...
Uneasy Japan. Tojo's decrees were but the latest step in a long campaign of regimentation. The Emperor himself has become a whip with which the Army urges the worker to still greater effort, the soldier to still greater sacrifice...
...Gaunt Henry Clay, only man who ever stepped into the Speakership the day he entered Congress, was the first to crack the whip over the House, the first to organize it firmly...
...Aircraft Co. Ltd. comprises acres of windowless con crete camouflaged in a misty hollow in the South Midlands, ten miles from the nearest town. Says Priestley, "take away these drawing offices, these toolmakers' sheds, these long rows of machines, these workers on assembly, and within ten days the whip is at your back. All the brave, drilled men, willing to rush toward death, all the flags and national anthems, all the patriotic speeches, cannot rescue a people now. Without such factories as this, they are lost or dependent...