Word: whips
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...press generally hailed the new tax proposals, prayed that Congress would have the nerve to cut out the non-defense plush trimmings and tax the sap out of the citizenry. Probability was that Congress would finally whip itself into such a hypnotic frenzy of patriotism and concern that it would pass a much-less-cowardly-than-average tax bill...
...United Country Parties, and has had a majority of only one in the 75-seat Canberra Parliament. The Labor opposition refused to enter the Government after last September's general elections. And to add to Mr. Menzies' political troubles last week, the Government's Parliamentary Whip suddenly died, leaving the Government no majority...
...Administration is trying to whip up hysteria in favor of conveying goods to England," asserted Professor Hankins, who believes that "convoys mean doughboys...
Well fitted for his part is Brace Beemer. Thirty-eight, Beemer stands 6 ft. 3, weighs 200 lb., is an excellent horseman, a superb shot, a handy man with a 35-ft. bull whip. His voice is so much like Graser's that his substitute version of the Ranger's famed cry to his horse: "Hi-Yo, Silver, away!" will scarcely be noticed by the nation's moppets. All along, he has represented the Ranger in his few public appearances. In 1933 when Beemer as the Lone Ranger made a personal appearance at Detroit's Belle...
Full of hatred for dictatorship, pious faith in democracy, Valtin said that he had been deafened by the blow of a Nazi whip, would never "fall alive again into the hands of Hitler's secret police." A few days later in Manhattan he fell into the hands of U. S. authorities, was detained on Ellis Island as an alien illegally sojourning in the U. S., until friends came through with $5,000 bail. Red-faced was the Department of Justice's radio division when it learned that the warrant for Valtin's arrest had been issued several...