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Word: whips (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...distant future ... It behooves us to keep our powder dry." Hannah was on hand too, but was clearly in enemy territory. The battle was joined, and Hannah may soon test an old article of Pentagon faith-not necessarily true-that when the National Guard Association cracks the whip, Congress obediently jumps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: Home Guards? | 3/1/1954 | See Source »

...junior officer of the Sultan's imperial guard who seduced a concubine was sentenced to 1,000 blows of the whip, at the rate of 100 lashes a day. At the end of three days and 300 lashes, he died...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Lions or Bullets? | 2/15/1954 | See Source »

This year the Young Democrats have also heard from John McCormack (R-Mass.), the House Minority whip, and John Carr, state Democratic Party Chairman...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dever Speaks Tonight To Young Democrats | 1/14/1954 | See Source »

...what he wants and wants it done to perfection, has long warred with the Navy -and he still loves his service. He has wooed, bullied and won the Atomic Energy Commission in its secret strongholds. He has made great industrial corporations jump and like it when he cracks the whip. Some high Navy officers still deplore intense, single-minded Admiral Rickover, but when the first atomic submarine, the Nautilus, slides down the ways at Groton, Conn, on Jan. 21, the U.S. Navy will never be the same again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Man in Tempo 3 | 1/11/1954 | See Source »

...orchestras since 1922. He led the Cincinnati Symphony for nine years, was largely responsible for the orchestra's fine reputation. In 1938 he took the ambitious but struggling Pittsburgh Symphony and put it on its feet. Five years ago he went to the Metropolitan Opera, where his whip-crack performances dazzled the public...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Chicago's Cure | 1/4/1954 | See Source »

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