Word: whips
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...G.O.P. Whip Les Arends gasped, "I'm astonished." Halleck and Arends were roiled not by a new Democratic ploy, but by a political move from one of their own: New York's Representative William Miller, who doubles in brass as chairman of the Republican National Committee...
...night, long after the other nuns have retired, she stays awake to pray; in her cell she has a "discipline" with the tiny whip that certain religious use to scourge themselves in mortification. In her soli tary life, Sister Nazarena prays, explains one nun, "for you, for me, for all of us." Solitude with her God seems to agree with her. "She is the most serene person I have ever known," says her abbess Mother Hildegarde. "She is a saint...
With that, Mansfield began scouting around to see if any Southerners wanted to resume the filibuster. "We were careful to check all of those fellows," said Democratic Whip Hubert Humphrey, "so that they couldn't complain that we'd tried to rush them. We asked John Stennis and Lister Hill and all the rest. But none of them was going to have any more to say." After the lopsided final Senate vote, the amendment was sent to the House; if approved by two-thirds of the members, it will still require ratification by three-fourths of the state...
Song-sparrows were wound up for the summer, and in the maple the complementary cardinal cracked a whip, and the sleeper awoke, stretching miles of green limbs from the south...
...Capitol Hill, the group will meet with House Speaker John McCormack and Rep. Richard Bolling (Dem.-Mo.), a member of Democrats' House Policy Committee. Last fall Bolling received liberal support in his unsuccessful bid for the position of Majority Whip...