Word: whips
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...could get things moving again? Part of the answer lies with the Democratic leadership on the Hill. Senate Leader Mike Mansfield is a fine gentlemanly fellow-maybe too much so for the hard political demands of his job. As for the House leaders-Speaker John McCormack. Carl Albert and Whip Hale Boggs&$151;they have yet to prove that they can even count noses before the vote comes...
Both crew camps have been launched and the squads should start full-scale drills Monday or Tuesday. In an effort to whip their oarsmen into winning form, Love and Rathschmidt have scheduled two-a-day workouts on the river for most of the upcoming two-week period...
...loud if we weren't goin' the wrong way. if we oughtn't to turn around. But we went up. finally, in a yellow, two-seat Piper Cub. The pilot kept me up there for half an hour, lettin' me take the stick and whip us through a few turns and glides. After that first ride, there wasn't any doubt what I was goin...
...stretch turn, exhausted, Ridan bore out and began to fade. The lead changed hands three times. In mid-stretch, Ridan gallantly came on again-only by now it was too late. On the far outside, Hartack was making his move. Chopping viciously with his whip, he drove Decidedly past the winded Ridan, past all the others. At the finish, Decidedly was 2¼ lengths in front...
Martin de Porres' private life was austere. He never ate meat, fasted completely from Holy Thursday until noon on Easter. In imitation of St. Dominic, he lashed himself three times nightly with a whip whose hooked ends were weighted with iron. Once, when the convent fell into debt, he suggested that his superior could raise some of the money by selling him as a slave; the offer was prudently refused...