Word: whips
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Despite their fiery appearance, comets are not actually aflame but glow mostly from fluorescence due to solar radiation. The closer they get to the sun, the brighter and larger they grow. One of the rare "sungrazing" comets, Ikeya-Seki will whip around the sun at a maximum speed of about 300 miles per second, passing within 300,000 miles of the sun's surface. Astronomers discounted some predictions that the comet will collide with the sun. But it could be broken up by the sun's radiation and gravitational field. If it survives its solar encounter, the comet...
...Water Whipping Sir: Your perfectly TIMEd water cover [Oct. 1] should lead to grass-roots recognition of our nation's staggering water problem. A thorough whipping is needed, and whip us you did. Your editor punched hard-the message came through raw and unembellished-but even more starkly effective was Robert Vickrey's cover...
...like a netherworld Frick & Frack, get into the act. Mephistopheles produces a bouquet of flowers out of the air, and pops a little boy into the oven. Sighs Faustus: "Don't you ever get weary of the same old tricks?" Renata does. Having flogged herself with a whip, she enters a nunnery to repent by singing again on her stomach. The saga ends with the nuns staging an orgy with imaginary demons and Renata condemned to burn at the stake for raising the devil...
Scarcely had the chaplain said amen to the opening prayer when Missouri Republican Durward Hall demanded the entire journal of the preceding session be read. The clerk had barely begun to drone when Minority Whip Leslie Arends of Illinois leaped up and demanded a quorum count, which includes a full roll call of the House. McCormack had to comply. The count ate up half an hour. It was hardly finished when Iowa Republican H. R. Gross asked for another. And so it went all afternoon and into the night. Majority Leader Carl Albert accused the opposition of filibustering. Tempers frazzled...
Pungent Prose. Almost as startling as Dirksen's solo was a speech by Majority Whip Russell Long, who rose to attack another amendment that would have granted Governors the right to veto community-action programs only. Giving the South's segregationist Governors such lopsided veto power over anti-poverty programs, said Louisiana's Long, would expose them to unbearable pressures from "the Ku Klux Klan on one side" and "the Negro crowd" on the other. Long also charged that Northern Republican Governors such as Michigan's George Romney, New York...