Word: whips
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...highway at 100 m.p.h. Outside a new apartment house, it screams to a rubber-ripping stop and flings nine tiny men in tight black uniforms off its big red back. The men crash into a flat, turn drawers and closets inside out, carry off a heap of hidden books, whip out a handsome copper flamethrower, burn all the books to fine grey soot...
...58th running of the prestigious meet had been billed as a duel between Villanova and Georgetown, but the battle never materialized. The Philadelphians took first, third, fourth, sixth, and 12th places for 26 points to whip second-place Notre Dame. Georgetown, IC4A champs in 1964 and '65, couldn't show enough power on top and finished fourth with 177. Michigan State was third...
McLaughry doesn't hide the fact that he hoped Harvard would beat Princeton so the Crimson would overlook Brown the next week. Now, Harvard has to win two games to stay alive in the championship race, and he says, "they may even be out to whip...
...great folk hero of Georgia -before Joseph Stalin came along. To the warlike people of the high wine-and-fruit-growing country between the Black and Caspian seas, Tariel was the perfect combination of vice and virtue. He could slash a man in two with a snap of his whip, slay 10,000 enemies in a single sortie, then weep like a woman at the thought of his own cruelty. Stalin went Tariel one better: he shed no tears. Yet all of Georgia wept when its favorite son died...
...radio and TV tenor (The Jack Benny Show), now doing an occasional nightclub bit; and Peggy McNulty, 41, his wife of 18 years: their tenth child, fourth daughter; in Santa Monica, Calif. The addition to the Day nursery prompted the Bobby Kennedys, expecting their tenth in the spring, to whip off a congratulatory telegram: IN 1968 WE WILL CHALLENGE YOU TO THE WORLD'S FAMILY FOOTBALL-TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP...