Word: whips
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...newly independent black nations, it is not easy these days to be a moderate, for the shrill cry against white men or colonialism can still whip up the biggest crowds. Last week Black Africa's two top statesmen, both distinguished for their moderation, were adjusting their policies to radical pressures...
...days convince me I do not have a chance to win." Reporters waited for a loser's usual call for party harmony and the conventional congratulations for the winner-but they did not come. Boiling was frankly bitter in conceding to Oklahoma's Carl Albert, the party whip for the last seven years, the leader's post being vacated by Massachusetts' Representative John McCormack, who was already all but sworn in as Speaker...
...only where necessary. Speaker Sam Rayburn. whose Fourth Texas District is just across the Red River from Albert's, took a fatherly, neighborly interest in Albert. In 1955. when the Democrats regained control of the House, Rayburn and John McCormack pored over the delegation lists for a majority whip. They got only as far as Oklahoma and the name of Carl Albert when Rayburn said: "That...
Albert's style of leadership is low-pressure. He deplores the sort of backroom bloodletting that has sometimes spattered the records of quick-drawing majority leaders of the past. He approves the Rayburn technique of giving members a loose rein when it comes to difficult votes. "If you whip them into line every time," he says, "by the session's third vote you're through. If you can't win them by persuasion you can't win them at all." On the other hand, Albert is tough enough to demand votes when the outcome...
...literally, "gentle way'') championship of the world was at stake. This was a challenge to Japan's dominance over her own national sport, and it was the ultimate test of one of the oldest traditions of judo: the wistful idea that a well-trained judoist can whip a larger opponent in hand-to-hand combat...