Word: whips
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bludgeoning & Blackmailing." With those persuasive political figures in mind, the Administration and the House Democratic leaders went to work. Majority Whip Hale Boggs and his staff, worried about Democrats who had already left for their Easter vacations, got on the phone, persuaded dozens, including six from California, to return for the vote. At White House urging, labor organizations, along with local-government groups, began calling and wiring Congressmen, telling them what the money would mean to the old home town. Texas' Democratic Representative Wright Patman inserted in the Congressional Record a 33-page list of all the communities that...
Hungarian intellectuals earned their meager allowance the hard way. Communist Boss Janos Kadar, after betraying his country to the Kremlin during the uprising, for four years tried to whip the country into submission by brutal use of police terror. But Kadar eventually learned that he could not force the sullen Hungarians to cooperate. With his civil service in tatters and economy a shambles, he gradually relaxed controls, even began naming non-Communist experts to key industrial jobs. "He who is not against us is with us," said Kadar in late 1961. Such relative leniency in a Communist state at last...
...Mona Lisa. Sweden can have Ingrid, Italy can keep Gina. Monaco can keep Grace. Washington doesn't need them." And why not? "Because," drawled Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson, "we have Lindy Boggs." TOSSing a wingding of a birthday party for vivacious Lindy Boggs, wife of House Democratic Whip Hale Boggs, were Lyndon and his Lady Bird, who is fast becoming one of Washington's mostes' hostesses. A heart-shaped cake proclaimed Lindy "Everybody's Sweetheart," and the Veep added further encomiums with a gold-tooled album inscribed "Woman of the Year Every Year...
...wrote, "than to find these creatures one week in a good family and the next in a brothel. This amphibious life makes 'em fit for neither, for if the bawd use them ill, away they trip to service and if their mistress gives 'em a wry word, whip they're at a bawdyhouse again, so that in effect they neither make good whores nor good servants...
...flowing academic gowns, green lawns and sherry parties." Says Dallas Holmes, now at the London School of Economics: "I came from Southern California with very right-wing opinions. I haven't turned Socialist, but I see that British doctors don't have whip marks on their backs...