Word: whips
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...child is not enough, nor is two," according to Fisher. "Three would be all right, because then the children can outvote the parents." He and his wife Rosamond ("Roz"), a greying, matronly and whip-smart delegate to Evanston, have six-all of them boys.* So far they have given the Fishers four grandchildren-all girls. "We just decided to change sexes," explains the archbishop...
...Homer cared a rap for the quality thought indispensable in Europe: art which conceals art. They achieved something rarer: honesty which may transcend art. The heart of summer, the gleam of flesh against green foliage, are conveyed in Eakins' Swimming Hole. And a man looking at Snap the Whip can remember what it felt like to get out of school and run barefoot on the grass...
...guarded. Said he earnestly: "I intend to intensify my campaign ... I give them credit for being as sincere as I am. When public sentiment has decided the issue, I am ready to shut up . . .But there are times when Samson has to take the jawbone of an ass and whip a pack of Philistines...
...Church document addressed primarily to Americans which equals this in its aggressive declaration of the papal claims," said the Century. Perhaps, it added, it indicates that the Vatican is beginning to "view with alarm the growing strength of the ecumenical movement. There was no such cracking of the disciplinary whip at the time of the Amsterdam Assembly [1948] . . . The Roman Catholic Bishop of Geneva went out of his way to express his good will . . . and the Catholic bishops in Holland approved prayers for its success...
...aluminum and other lightweight metals, Talgo's cars are only 7 ft. 6 in. from floor to ceiling, 4 ft. lower than current coaches. Inside, travelers sit in reclining airplane-type seats, look out big picture windows, put their luggage in forward compartments. The low train can whip into curves smoothly at 90 m.p.h., v. the 50-60 m.p.h. of today's flyers. It weighs only one-third as much as current trains, requires only 40% as much fuel for the same speed, can be built at an estimated $1,300 a seat, v. $2,300 for present...